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Tips to get your kids to stop seeing daily tasks as a nuisance.
Sharing tasks is not just a couple’s affair, but a family necessity. That’s why the famous “duty roster” was put in place to remind children that their mother is not Mary Poppins. Normally, at the beginning, it works, and we even wonder why we hadn’t thought of it earlier: no more arguments, everyone knows what they have to do … make dinner on Monday, sweep the floor on Tuesday, take out the garbage on Wednesday.
But, sooner or later, things typically get out of hand. Once you’ve gotten past the satisfaction of not having to chase everyone down when it’s time to set the table, you’re likely to be disillusioned by the notorious onset of chore trade-offs. “I’ll trade you my silverware chore for your cleaning out the rabbit cage, but you also have to give me your turn for video games and I’ll let you use my skateboard too if you take my turn for the garbage.”
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An effective method for teaching children to do chores without complaining
Sharing tasks is not just a couple’s affair, but a family necessity. That’s why the famous “duty roster” was put in place to remind children that their mother is not Mary Poppins. Normally, at the beginning, it works, and we even wonder why we hadn’t thought of it earlier: no more arguments, everyone knows what they have to do … make dinner on Monday, sweep the floor on Tuesday, take out the garbage on Wednesday.
But, sooner or later, things typically get out of hand. Once you’ve gotten past the satisfaction of not having to chase everyone down when it’s time to set the table, you’re likely to be disillusioned by the notorious onset of chore trade-offs. “I’ll trade you my silverware chore for your cleaning out the rabbit cage, but you also have to give me your turn for video games and I’ll let you use my skateboard too if you take my turn for the garbage.”
Continued below.
An effective method for teaching children to do chores without complaining
