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Until the kids all got smartphones... what chores? Raise your kids in a single shared room without any convenient forms of unlimited entertainment, where they
by newnewpdro 8y ago
Until the kids all got smartphones... what chores?
Raise your kids in a single shared room without any convenient forms of unlimited entertainment, where they must either witness all the work they're not helping with while bored and guilty or participate, and see how magically helpful they are.
- sudhirj 8y agoRaising my kid in a house full of books, massive TV, most iPads, iPhone and MacBooks released lying around. The ideas still work. Cleans the floor, takes a great interest in making sure we’re all well fed, keeps stuff tidy, tries grooming, and stirs my coffee and blows on it if it’s too hot. A year and a half old.
- PebblesRox 8y agoMy floors are the cleanest they've ever been because my 17-month-old nags me to vacuum. I've been meaning to get him a little Dirt Devil or something, so he can do it himself. (He tries with ours but it's just a little too big for him to manage.)
- newnewpdro 8y agoSounds premature for either of the parent comments to be making any kind of claims to success, but I wish you all the best of luck.
- sudhirj 8y agoThink we're listing it more as anecdata to support the approach mentioned in the article. The article is validating the approach as much as something that's not a controlled decades long study can, which I suppose we're happy enough with.