If parents don’t get paid for the regular work they do around the house, why should the kids? Chores are just something that everyone does to keep a household running. It’s a fine idea for children to learn a proper work ethic, but parents can teach it by paying for larger, once-in-a-while tasks that they might otherwise hire someone else to do. And while we want our kids to know what it means to have a boss who evaluates their efforts, they are probably not going to end up working for their parents. So let them learn this from a real boss when they get jobs as teenagers, which they should
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