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An implausibly tidy child's bedroom in bright, bold colours.

A NON-LINEAR GROUP OF THOUGHTS ON CHORES FOR KIDS (Part 3 & final)

Hmm, what else? All in all, it’s taken A LOT of mental effort to get my kids to the point where they can get home and I can just say ‘chores are in the app’ and they do them, but OMG is it worth it at this end. Most adults are astonished when I tell […]

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An implausibly tidy child's bedroom in bright, bold colours.

A NON-LINEAR GROUP OF THOUGHTS ON CHORES FOR KIDS (Part 2)

PS (which in this case is a PRE-script, not a post one) – the whole ‘subscribe’ thing in the footer seems to be misbehaving. I’ll work on that. In the meantime, if you’re super keen not to miss my extremely sporadic posting, you can visit this post on the website and in the sidebar (desktop)

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An implausibly tidy child's bedroom in bright, bold colours.

A NON-LINEAR GROUP OF THOUGHTS ON CHORES FOR KIDS (Part 1)

This is a generalised response to a specific question I was asked yesterday, namely, “How do I get my kids to do chores without all of us but especially me having a breakdown?” My response ran long (we are shocked) so I figured I’d share publicly in case it’s useful for anyone else – except

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