Think "small tasks, big contributions"(小任务，大贡献)
Offer(chance) for the child to help the chore you're doing. Give them a task that is appropriate(适当的) with (they) skill level. Maybe it's holding a measuring cup while (make) bread, moving a chair while sweeping. The task can be tiny, but the key part, Coppens says, (be) that it has to make a real contribution to the chore. It can't be a "fake" project or action that has nothing to do with the real chore. Then everyone isn't working together for a common goal.
"In one of our studies, the middle-class, European families reported giving children what we called 'mock work,'" Coppens says. For example, a mom would sweep the kitchenafterward, she would give the broom to her young child to "resweep" the kitchen." The parents(know) that the child wasn't contributing to chore, and pretty(quick), the kid will pick up on the same idea," Coppens says. And the kid loses out on the pride and sense of(succeed) that comes from making a real contribution.
