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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't ALL kids have chores? I can't imagine not having chores no matter what size the family.  This is part of teaching you how to run hour household later in life.

I remember Marie Osmond saying in an interview one time:"I don't have cleaning help  in my house.  I have 8 kids! That's a lot of cleaning help already."  I was one of 5 and my mom always said the same thing :-)[/quote]
It is one thing to do chores when every child in the family does some
It is completely another to make a teenager play part time mini-mom.[/quote]

Yeah my 10 yo’s chores are clean your room, laundry, help load dishwasher. Not “give your 1 year old sibling a bath and put them to bed.” [/quote]

Well, that was one of my older sisters' chores when she was growing up.  (My mom often worked nights and my older sister that was 9 when I was born usually did my bath and bedtime -- although maybe not starting when I was one, probably more like when I was 3 or 4.)  We're both grown women now, and seem to be fine.  We have good relationships with our parents, families of our own, etc.  And I gave plenty of baths to her kids when they were little.  I'm not sure why "give your little sibling a bath and put them to bed" is such an awful chore.  Way better than scrub the toilets!  [/quote]

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