A Chore System for My Kids That Actually Works: When I only had one child and all her toys fit in a laundry basket, keeping the house clean was pretty easy.
Now I have two kids that have way too much stuff, one house that is way too small and not nearly enough time to deal with working, parenting, chauffeuring, cooking AND housekeeping. My solution? Emotional Child Abuse: The Invisible Plague. Teach a Kid to Argue - Figures of Speech. Why would any sane parent teach his kids to talk back?
Because, this father found, it actually increased family harmony. (First published in Disney’s Wondertime Magazine.