Avoiding the Chore War
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Our guests offer parents practical advice on teaching children responsibility by giving them age-appropriate chores.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Jim Daly here. Today's cultured deeply needs help, but in times like these, the light of Christ can shine even brighter. |
| 0:07.0 | So be encouraged to share his light in this broken world. Listen to the refocus with Jim Daly podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | Without time limitations, I'll have deep heartfelt discussions with fascinating guests who will encourage you to share God's grace, truth and love. |
| 0:22.0 | Check out the podcast at refocuswithjimdaly.com or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Greg, let me ask you, what are some things you do around the house to help out? |
| 0:39.0 | Oh boy. That's great. It's funny you should ask that right here in front of millions. |
| 0:47.0 | You know, my, the thing that I really have been focused on lately is lying is the dishwasher loading and unloading the dishwasher is now my responsibility. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm taking that over. Well, there you go. It's one thing you can do to help out at the home. |
| 1:03.0 | And it's the season of the dishwasher for our guest there, Dr. Greg Smalley. This is focused on the family. And we're going to be talking about household chores and how to navigate the assignment and the working out of household chores. |
| 1:16.0 | Our host is focused president Jim Daly and Jim, we have Greg and his wife Aaron here and you're a little bit on the hot seat because I think that kind of question you asked Greg is going to be coming your way as your wife Jean is here at the table as well. |
| 1:29.0 | No, it's not. Yes, it is. |
| 1:31.0 | No way. Yeah, this is not fair. Where's Dina? How come Dina's not at the table? |
| 1:35.0 | Well, I did not want to shame anybody here at the table because I'm so good at this. |
| 1:39.0 | Thank you, John. I appreciate inviting Aaron and Jane to the table. |
| 1:42.0 | I'm going to call Dina this afternoon. It is good to have you with us, Jean. |
| 1:47.0 | Thank you. It's fun being here and it's great to have you here too. |
| 1:51.0 | Thank you so much. Even though you're going to hold us accountable to things that we don't want to be held accountable to. |
| 1:55.0 | I'm going on records and it's not good to be here. You know, that open. |
| 1:59.0 | There's some recent Pew research showed that sharing household chores is the third highest rank key to a successful marriage. |
| 2:08.0 | That's unbelievable. You would think communication. That's probably one or two. |
| 2:13.0 | But when it comes down to chores, really, the third highest ranked item in a marriage has helped me. That's incredible. |
| 2:20.0 | Yeah, you know, I think it has so much to do with just this fact of that we are sharing all these responsibilities. |
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