A comment I made in an earlier blog entry touched upon the importance of children doing chores, regardless of their age or circumstances. Jo Frost, TV's well known supernanny, is a great role model of a successful parent—she’s clear, consistent and usually calm.  She’s in control and not the children.  You want your parenting style to be like that of a super nanny, where your children are respectful, responsible and fun to be around, don’t you?  Or am I speaking to the wrong crowd!

Of course you do and one of the ways you can do this is by having your children do chores.  Why?  Because they are a member of a family and need to learn it is important to help out with family chores and duties.  If mom and dad wait on the kids all the time and don’t have the kids ...   more »