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[quote=Anonymous]One was always helpful. Another, I would say by 13, he stopped stepping g over the laundry basket and carrying it upstairs and shortly thereafter, would clear the table and clean up dinner. It took the third much longer to initiate that sort of behavior. As to regular chores that are assigned, like empty the dishwasher, take out the trash, or clean the cat box, we don’t have to remind more than occasionally and if they’re busy they work out their own switches with each other. We set a deadline for each chore- before dinner for the dishwasher, before bed for the cat box, Sunday before bed for trash. I give my spouse huge credit for this. She would call them back if they stepped over the laundry basket or whatever needed to be done. She also called them on it if it would be nice to help but they didn’t offer - like if you’re going to the dishwasher and others are done but you did t offer to take their plates. It didn’t happen naturally. [/quote]
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