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[quote=Anonymous]I didn’t have any chores and now I’m a stay at home mom and literally do everything for my family’s smooth operation. I’m happy with it. Making my kids do chores is way more hassle than it’s worth. My daughter’s a teenager and she’s starting to ask me “how do I run a load of laundry? How do I cook/bake this?” Her boyfriend cooks a lot for his family and she’s realizing she’s a bit behind the eight ball on stuff like this. I think it’s perfectly fine that she has been focused on being a kid and schoolwork and her sports up until this point. It’s not gonna take her a whole lot of time to learn these skills and I have been happy to take care of them for my family all this time. I consider staying at home a full-time job literally 24 hours. I do not have A Cleaning Lady, or a cook, or a driver, or a babysitter— I have never farmed out the work to anyone else.
 I barely did chores as a kid and I turned out pretty good. I expect the same of my kids. They’re not selfish. They don’t have a superiority complex and if I asked them to do anything, they would immediately do it. I think that’s the most important thing. If you have some selfish pricks and they refuse to do some dusting around the house when asked, you have a problem. [/quote]

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