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If you can raise your kids to not be distracted by roblox and TV (or at least not too distracted), you've probably already won the chore battle.
by WilTimSon 5y ago
If you can raise your kids to not be distracted by roblox and TV (or at least not too distracted), you've probably already won the chore battle.
- ramraj07 5y agoWhich battle? A well raised kid would probably still be a kid at heart and do the chores, not mutually exclusive.
- INTPenis 5y agoThis is a grave simplification but at the end of the day you decide what input they get. You have the money, the power. But in reality kids wield power over their parents and the parents give in. Kids are empty canvases, they soak up what they see and emulate it.
- Bancakes 5y agoThe moment that kid enters K12, you've lost. The moment all the classmates start throwing around memes, references, and pop culture, and your kids sit at the back quietly and secluded - you've lost. The child has to go through these periods the hard way and learn to cope with impulses and stimuli.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoThe hard way in some areas means over half of the high school girls are taking anti depression medication though…
- riffraff 5y agomy kids (~6, ~8) don't have access to videogames and watch TV maybe 30m a day, and not every day, but still don't do chores happily. I don't think screens are categorically different from other distractions (tho they may be worse in some ways). My daughter will happily spend time reading books after having made a mess with toys rather than tidy up. My son does the same and he can't even read.
- blowski 5y agoMy 8 year old son gets distracted by reading the instructions on the milk carton.
- INTPenis 5y agoYeah well you have to remember that the mayan villages they studied didn't even have a library. When I first read about this mayan method they had packed soil for floors and huts. So when I say distractions, I mean all distractions.