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Featured today on takingchildrenseriously.com:
Housework, chores, tidiness, mess

Creativity and untidiness

The parental ideology of tidiness

Clean freak mother strongly supporting her child’s right to be messy

Taking toys seriously (yes, really)

Aunt Cynthia and cleanliness

“Not made to do chores?! How will they develop a work ethic?!”

Requiring children to do chores

Possible subtle housework coercion

Letting go of policing chores

Cleaning as you go or cleaning in one go

Why stuff-management matters

Housework help for a harried mother

Thoughts on the housework problem

Cleaning the house for visitors

Three cheers for just-in-time or walk-by cleaning

How Taking Children Seriously helped me solve my housework-hating problem

How would you like it?

Forget about it!

Niceness to force children to do things they do not want to do

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