The Only 3 House Rules You’ll Ever Need

How many house rules do you have at home? We used to have so many I’ve lost count already. I’m pretty sure my two kids have lost count also AND most likely remember just a handful of them.

Before 2014 ended, we decided to simplify our rules and narrowed it down to just three.  These three simple rules encompass all the other rules we used to have:

Rule#1:  Be Loving

Rule#2: Be Respectful

Rule#3: Be Obedient

Do the rules work? Most of the time! I’d love to say always but kids (and us adults, too) are a work in progress, you know.  They still do sometimes fight each other and talk back. Although having only these three rules makes it much easier to remind them of how they should behave and conduct themselves.  Another plus factor of having just these rules is that the kids can’t ever complain that there are too many house rules. ;D

Comments

  1. nice post! I should put down our rules board and change it to that 3 house rules. 🙂

  2. Nice rules. But can you always do it??? you will not implemwnt if you did not work onn it

    • Hi, Sylvia! As I’ve said in my short post, I’d love to say that it always works but would have to settle for “most of the time”. 🙂 I found though that positive words encourage positive attitudes so these three rules work pretty well for us.