Getting kids to help with chores seemed like an ideal requiring extra-superlative
effort made by super-moms...
until some ugly attitudes crept up chez nous. Then it became a vital necessity.
Photo at left: demure Mom Shock. Below is more what I felt like.
This Mother's Day, I was invited to write about Motherhood à la French for our church magazine. I responded that I really don't know about French mothering, not about American parenting, nor even about godly or Christian mom-ing for that matter either. I know what we do in our home. And the best thing that we do is change together.
Enabling our kids to make wise decisions is one of a parent’s greatest
legacies. When the dilemma is between strawberries and banana’s (and the
precocious strategist exclaims, “Both!”) parents hardly think about
the process...unless it’s, “Decide quickly, please.” All too
soon, children are confronted with the selection of friends, ways to use free
time, options for college, and trade-offs to finance their choices. By this
time, moms and dads change their vocabulary to, “Decide well.” 
Everything I needed to know about parenting teens, I learned at the Harvard Business School.
