Whenever I've tasked my two children with a new chore, it never fails that within a week, they've gone from willing, if not eager, helper to aggreived, mutinous laborer.
Finally, after my 6-year-old complained about a task – which was to put the clean, folded clothes I laid out atop her dresser into the drawers – that she'd been stalling to complete for three days in a row, I decided to try a new tactic. To drive my point home, I ended with this:"All I ask of you is to do the very last step. What I have to do takes hours, but your step should only take you a few minutes. Do you see why I get frustrated when you say it's too much work or takes too long?"
"We have to decide what food we are going to want to eat, and then we write down a list of all the ingredients we need that we don't have at home. Then Dad goes to the grocery store and finds all those things from the list, puts them in a shopping cart, and pays for them. Then, when it's time to cook a meal, he gets all those ingredients out. He measures them, and he cuts all the vegetables and cooks the food.
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