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[quote=Anonymous] I am the poster with the long list of skills that I want my kids to have before leaving the house.  I wanted to add that for me the actual motivation and having them help as much as my kids do is less about learning the skills and more about the fact that 
1) as a young adult, there were many things that I simply didn't attempt because I wasn't confident that I had the skill set to do them. Whenever possible I want my kids to have evidence that they are competent people who can make a life for themselves. If they can look back at all of the skills they have mastered, I hope that that will increase their  self-confidence overall. 
 2)  I want my kids to be successful in their future relationships. I know way too many adults who walked around thinking that their partner  would just take care of everything and ended up bombing and otherwise decent relationship simply because they did not have an instinctive understanding that being part of a family/household requires everyone to step up and put their shoulder to the wheel.   I want my kids to grow up with an instinctive understanding that if everyone else in the room is working to get dinner ready, they should not be sitting in the corner texting someone, they should be asking how they can help or seeing something that needs to be done and doing it without being asked. [/quote]

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