As I drive home in the evenings, I usually try to prepare the kids for what we will do when we get home. Usually I do this to preempt the "Can we watch TV?" discussion that I know will be coming. Typically I tell the kids what their chores will be and remind them about putting shoes and coats away. It is never a long conversation, but there are often groans when the assigned chores are announced. This is one of my favorite recent conversations:
Me: Tonight when we get home, Frances and Henry, you both have clothes to put away.
Henry (shouting): WHY DO WE ALWAYS HAVE CHORES?!?!
Me (after a brief time of reflection): Well, chores are important for you to learn how to be a responsible person.
Henry (after a brief silence): Oh. I thought they were just boring.
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