Random anecdote from Japanese preschool: my six year old will, like everyone else at school, run an internal play shop for a day. Explanation to parents of goals: "Teach children how to be properly polite in a transaction, get them comfortable with buying things, feel useful."
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This is for kids who are extremely beginning readers and most cannot do addition/subtraction yet, so they're pre-baking all the numbers to cheat the need to do math.
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A complicated topic, but a thing I love, is that Japan often considers young children capable of agency, and works to increase it. (And then there is a switch-flips-off moment in a few years, sadly. Again, complicated topic.)
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Related ritual: there is a designated classroom manager who rotates daily (among the students). They come in a little early, set up the room, assist with calling roll, etc etc. Responsibility to others is an opportunity for growth, so it is intentionally exercised early + often.
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I think I was 25 before anyone outside my family ever said "OK Patrick, you're in charge of X and we're counting on you for it."
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Lillian *loves* this activity. She has me pin on her badge in the morning and flies through the routine. "Can't be late today Daddy hurry hurry I'm in charge!"
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