Do your kids do chores? And if they do, do you pay them for their services? In our house, we figure everyone needs to contribute to maintaining the homestead in a community sorta way, and so we don’t pay our children (who are 9 and 11) to wash dishes, take out and bring back in [...]

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I’m afraid that my two little boys (ages 8 and 6) feel a tad too entitled. They want, want, want, and then they want some more. And when they don’t get a new toy just a few days after scoring Clone Wars action figures, they get cranky and moody and mopey. Why do they always [...]