My kids learned how to set a table VERY early! Method? Whoever does it correctly gets a cookie – a nice, home baked one. Wow, they learned everything from the salad fork in…. You can train any kind of animal with food rewards!
cdward: which is why one never says “would you” or “will you” when giving someone an instruction. (order) You can soften and sweeten it with a smile and inflection, but the order remains… better get that straight, Calvin.
OK, kid, now the big guns come out… like doing your own laundry? Cooking? Your too young to drive – want to go to the mall for new clothes? Tough. Need a ride to a friends’ house? Walk. Any more statements of independence?
Geez, how’d he get a degree in dentistry when he’s too stupid to get a weather forecast?