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Getting Kids to Clean is a Chore

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Many kids today rarely lift a dust rag. Their rooms often look like a tornado hit them, with unmade beds and clothes scattered everywhere.

We may be raising a nation of slobs if something isn’t done about it, say two leading cleaning experts. They are advising parents to pick up their brooms and turn them over to their children. “Anybody old enough to mess up is old enough to clean up,” says Don Aslett, known as the King of Clean and the author of 40 books. “Parents are cleaning up after kids, and I think it’s sad. They are reinforcing bad behavior.”

Kids today seem to be doing a lot less housework and chores. Children have less time because they are busy with sports, clubs, after-school activities, jobs and homework, says Sampson Lee Blair, associate professor of sociology.

Plus, parents today consider their kids “emotional assets” to love and take care of rather than the “economic assets” they were years ago when they were essential for running the family farm, Blair says. Some parents don’t want to be strict about making their kids do chores, he adds. But they aren’t doing their kids any favors by letting them off the hook, says Aronson, who writes a cleaning column for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Parents who want their kids to help around the house should start giving them chores early and be consistent in making sure the jobs are done, experts say.

Aronson began working on this when her kids were toddlers. From the time her youngest could walk, she had him picking up his dirty clothes and putting them in the hamper.

When her oldest son was 10, he stomped out of his room one day and told her that she needed to do the laundry because he didn’t have any clean uniforms for school. That was the day she taught him to do his own wash.

And chores like washing windows and mowing the lawn are something the family can do together to make their home nicer.

(By Nanci Hellmich USA TODAY)

 

13. Work in pairs. You are busy with housework. Restore the dialogues. Use the word combinations below.

1) A: Hello, come in. Don’t mind the mess. I’m just …….

B: Oh, what a pity you are busy.

A: Don’t worry. It never takes me much time …….

2) A: Let me…..

B: ……, you may ……..

A: Don’t you want to ……..? Do you mind if I open the window?

B: Oh, no. I don’t mind it a bit.

3) A: Wait a moment. I have to wash up …...

B: Somebody else can do it, I think.

A: Certainly, everybody can, but today it’s ….. to do it.

4) A: ……….? Is it the fridge again?

B: No It’s not the fridge. …….

A: Oh? Well, what’s wrong with it?

B: Well, I think ……. with the temperature control. Everything I try to cook gets burnt.

A: Really? OK, I’ll get someone to look at it right away.

 

What can I do for you? …water the flowers It’s oven this time. …help you …my turn …the dishes … … something’s wrong … air the room …doing the room … scrubbing brush …to tidy up the room If you don’t mind…

 




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