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Archive of posts filed under the Chores category.

Copywork for Boys

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.  ~John Lubbock I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.  ~Thomas Jefferson The [...]

Happy Little Helpers

On the way to church I was thinking to myself, “Self, you are overburdening the teens and the littles have been living the sweet life!  Do something, give this some thought! In a conversation during Fellowship lunch my friend, KimC (Life in a Shoe) reminded me of some wisdom I had shared with her some [...]

Paper, just paper!

I set up our chore system years ago.  And we keep our chores.  Once I assign you a chore you may as well learn to love it, because it’s yours.  I only change chores for compelling reasons. They all get an opportunity to learn all of the other chores, since we fill in without complaint [...]