I'm a proponent of homeschooling but the pandemic made it clear a lot of people hate it. They want their kids to go to school and have a teacher. Chores had to

I'm a proponent of homeschooling but the pandemic made it clear a lot of people hate it. They want their kids to go to school and have a teacher. Chores had to be done because chores had to be done, not "because mom said so." If the trash didn't go out, it piled up and became a problem. At first, I would get "Can it wait until the next commercial? I'm watching TV." I would say "Yes." The result: I nagged for hours without results. Then I started saying "No. You can never remember to do it on the next commercial. It's taking too much of my time and energy to keep asking you to do it. Do it now." The result: After a few days of having his fun interrupted, he proactively took trash out before his TV shows started and then asked if there was anything else he needed to do because he didn't want his shows interrupted. But the folks who hate homeschooling and decry it as the work of the devil don't want to hear that chores are a good substitute for assigned homework. However we do it, taking ownership of a task is something we need to instill in kids.