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•Doing a few regular chores each week teaches children life-long habits and negates entitlement.

•Hold a family meeting so children may volunteer to pitch in around the house.

•Expect and you shall receive. Set up a structure for your children to contribute and expect that they will.

•If they don’t do what they said they’d do, follow through in a firm and friendly manner.

•Practice developing personal authority by taking action and using fewer words.

•Children enjoy the rewards of being in a family, so expect them to participate in the work of being a family.

•Your children might be secretly yearning to contribute to the family so they feel like you depend upon them and they belong to the family.