When your kids are growing up you want to teach them responsibility and chores is one of the best ways for that to happen.

Certainly we had our house full of kids doing laundry and doing the dishes and doing the lawn

there was just a lot for them to do and I really miss them now that they're all

growing up and out of the house I'm John Fuller along Dr. Danny Werta who heads up our parenting team and Danny Chores. I mean this is this is one of the hot topics that our counseling team has to address sometimes because chores and kids just becomes really difficult but you

you taught your kids some good responsibility through common everyday chores

100% they're perfect John I mean you know the chores actually we have we still have these

conversations around chores that's a that's a weekly reset in our home who's got

what what are we trying to do remember here's your list if you're in a reminder if you don't

get these things done here's what's going to happen you can't go out you can't go out

with with your girlfriend until you get those done or you can't go with your friends.

I mean those are common conversations in the house.

One thing that is a constant thing is cleaning the kitchen.

Who's got dishes, who's got the dishwasher, and we have those moments of hey that's unfair I did

that this and that and we emphasize the fact that these are opportunities to

serve one another and to conquer the home.

We just naturally not like chores.

That's just the human nature.

Yet we love the order that it creates.

Cleaning their room, kids, naturally as teenagers have a hard time

maintaining a room. My son recently said, Dad, is there any way to trade a

chore? Because vacuuming is my least favorite chore of all time. Can I trade with anybody

to have an extra chore? Because that one just gets me every time. And then the yard

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