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“By jessibaby on January 5, 2011 2:11 PM

I disagree. You feed your children because you made them. They didnt ask to be put on this earth. They shouldnt have to work for food.”

This is exactly the opposite of my world view.

I never liked FAO even when I was a kid. I prefer & preferred esoteric toys – Gilbert Hall of Science, Edmund Scientific, etc.
I do take kids there & lead them to treat it as a museum.

“You don’t get paid for chores. You get dinner.”

I disagree. You feed your children because you made them. They didnt ask to be put on this earth. They shouldnt have to work for food.

We got paid for doing household chores, when I was a kid. That was when my brother and I were around 10-12 or so. We’d get $.25 for dusting a couple of rooms, the same for vacuuming, etc. We didn’t get anything for our own bedrooms, as it was common knowlege that we better clean those no matter what. There was so much to do around the house, an ambitious kid could make a decent salary of around $2 a week, which was good money back then. In retrospect, it gave my very overworked mother a bit of time to herself, as she had a full time job teaching, something many mothers did not have at the time.

When I was much younger, my father used to stay in NYC all week and work, and then come home, upstate, on Friday night, and go back on Sunday. He always came in the house with a small brown paper bag for each of us, with a dollar in it. We would attack him for it, smothering him with hugs and kisses, as we hadn’t seen him all week. It’s one of my favorite childhood memories of my father.