boys and housework
Folks, let me tell you this: It is a lot better to have pink underwear than no clean underwear at all. Get your guys doing chores! Here are some things that have helped us (and no, we don't do this perfectly - not remotely so!) Use manly marketing. If you say, "Sweetheart, could you make…
A sweet mama came up to us in tears at last weekend's conference. She wailed, "I can't do everything I'm supposed to!" The question we wanted to ask her is "Who told you that you were supposed to do all that?" Yeah, it's true. There's a lot you really are supposed to be doing -…
“I never ask my son to do housework! That’s a woman’s role, so the girls do that. He only does outside chores,” a friend once said. Uh oh! Melanie thought, I’m sunk. We didn’t have any girls back then, just a not-so-neat dad and a houseful of very active and thoroughly messy boys. Actually, though,…