Mean Moms Make Them Work

Air Date: 2015-10-21
Feel like your kids need something productive to do? Then you just might be a mean mom! Joanne Kraft, author of “The Mean Mom’s Guide to Raising Great Kids,” talks about the benefits of having the kids help out at home. Not only do chores teach good work habits, Joanne explains, but they also teach kids how to serve others.

Joanne Kraft is a recovering too-busy mom and the author of Just Too Busy—Taking Your Family on a Radical Sabbatical. A sought-after speaker, Joanne’s articles have been published by In Touch, Thriving Family, ParentLife, Marriage Partnership, Today’s Christian Woman, P31 Woman and more. She’s appeared on CBN News, Focus on the Family’s—Your Family Live, Sacramento & Co., and The Harvest Show. In her spare time, she works on-call as a 911 dispatcher for the City of Folsom Police Department. She makes her home in the Sierra Nevada Foothills of Northern California with her husband Paul, their four children, and a beagle with a slight weight problem.