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What's wrong with either of those things? A three-year-old isn't going to do a "good job" cleaning a bathroom; the article even says that. The point is to teac

What's wrong with either of those things? A three-year-old isn't going to do a "good job" cleaning a bathroom; the article even says that. The point is to teach the kids that someone has to do those things, and to expect them to pull their weight in the household. As for an eight-year-old doing laundry... why not? It's not like it's physically demanding. I have a feeling you'd be either amazed or aghast at what my daughters (five and ten) do on their own.

xvector 7y ago
My comment is in the context of the whole article. In general, I find that the laundry-list (pun intended) of chores and rules takes away from perhaps the most precious phase of life from the children. To have to wake up at 5:15 AM, do chores until you go to school, come back from school, and do chores almost until you go to sleep? What time do the kids have left to themselves? There is no room left for the kids to organically prosper. There's simply no opportunity. The kids grow in only the direction the parents want them to grow in. There's no ingenuity, no room to rebel and "break the rules", and restricted room for natural curiosity to flourish. I personally think it is almost the right of a child to grow in the way they want to, especially once they reach a high-school age. By depriving them of time, support, religious freedom, and the opportunity to learn things by themselves, you are also depriving your children of room to grow, freedom, and creativity/ingenuity. This whole article reads to me as the author trying to turn his children into little Stormtrooper clones. And the moment they turn 18, they are loosed into the wild without a care, because the parents have "done their job". To me, this is antithetical to a concept of a family, or even parents. My personal belief is that parents exist to love, support, and encourage their child to grow and prosper. These folks seem to have the "love" part down but nothing else, which is why I find this family entirely dysfunctional.

xvector 7y ago

My comment is in the context of the whole article. In general, I find that the laundry-list (pun intended) of chores and rules takes away from perhaps the most precious phase of life from the children. To have to wake up at 5:15 AM, do chores until you go to school, come back from school, and do chores almost until you go to sleep? What time do the kids have left to themselves? There is no room left for the kids to organically prosper. There's simply no opportunity. The kids grow in only the direction the parents want them to grow in. There's no ingenuity, no room to rebel and "break the rules", and restricted room for natural curiosity to flourish. I personally think it is almost the right of a child to grow in the way they want to, especially once they reach a high-school age. By depriving them of time, support, religious freedom, and the opportunity to learn things by themselves, you are also depriving your children of room to grow, freedom, and creativity/ingenuity. This whole article reads to me as the author trying to turn his children into little Stormtrooper clones. And the moment they turn 18, they are loosed into the wild without a care, because the parents have "done their job". To me, this is antithetical to a concept of a family, or even parents. My personal belief is that parents exist to love, support, and encourage their child to grow and prosper. These folks seem to have the "love" part down but nothing else, which is why I find this family entirely dysfunctional.