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[quote=Anonymous]Instacart, pick up dry cleaner service and lawn service.

For the tidying up things I would really recommend getting your kids in the habit of helping you earlier. Toddlers love splashing around water! Hand them a spray bottle and they are in heaven. I did this incredibly inconsistently because I had mommy guilt and felt the need to do all sorts of special things and make every moment I was with them memorable. But at some point realized I was raising kids who had a terrible attitude about being responsible for their own lives and home and repeatedly the pattern that really annoyed me that my husband was solely expected to do academics and “get ahead” only growing up and seems to somehow believe that household tasks are optional. It’s been a ton of work to introduce the idea that we are all responsible for our home and everyone helps but it’s getting much better. I actually have great conversations with my kids while folding laundry and we talk about strategies to make boring things like chores more pleasant (listen to music, time yourself etc).

We still have a once a month cleaner and my kids’ appreciation for her has skyrocketed since they became responsible for more of their own stuff. [/quote]

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