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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Um, I didn't pour cereal when I was 7. I didn't have a maid, either...[/quote]

A 7 year old is perfectly able to pour cereal on their own. They might need a bit of help with a full gallon of milk so they don't spill too much, but otherwise they can do it very easily. A parent shouldn't just be taking care of kids by doing stuff for them, but should be teaching kids to become independent as well. This means that once they are old enough to do something with help, to have them do it with help. By the time they can do it by themselves, that they do it by themselves. I was helping my mom and sister wash and dry and put away dishes each night when I was 4. By the time I was 8, it was just me and my sister (who was 3 yrs older than me). By the time I was 8 yrs old, we were also cleaning the house with my mom (either someone did the vacuuming and another the dusting, or we all had a room to clean ourselves). We learned that we put away our own toys, my mom didn't. We learned that when we were done with a dish in the living room, to bring it back into the kitchen within a reasonable amount of time (like an hour afterwards). We didn't leave it there all day, we didn't leave the room to go do something else and leave it behind. Any child should be learning the same.[/quote]

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