Coffee and kids...

Nope, this is not a post about kids drinking coffee but about them making coffee. I'm enjoying a cup of coffee thanks to my daughter. She put it on last night so it would be ready for me this morning. My daughters take turn doing kitchen duty and part of that is to put coffee on. They've learned that if they don't get to the kitchen duty (doing dishes) for some reasons they know that I'll let it slide till about noon the next day (unless there is company coming or an event) if they at least put coffee on.

This is a game we play and we seem to enjoy it. They've learned that with things there are priorities and do the important things first and the others can sometimes wait. This is an important life lesson and work lesson for when they get into the real world. Which is my job as a parent...help them learn the things the need to be good, productive, happy members of society.

My son does kitchen duty once in a while. Now, this is NOT because he is a male but because he likes doing the yard work and his sisters do not like it. So they made the decision to split the work along those lines. He still does it once in a while. I want to make sure he knows how to do those things so he can care for himself and others later in life. And, oh yes, the daughters know how to cut grass, rake leaves, plant flowers, etc. They do those once in a while, too.

On washing clothes coming in a later post...