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Why Children Need Chores?

3/19/2015

Chores create the vital teamwork essential to the functioning of the stepfamily. They create self esteem, responsibility, organizational skills and more. We have been assigning chores for three decades.

Below is an article from the Wall Street Journal that explains the benefits of children doing chores:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-children-need-chores-1426262655?KEYWORDS=chores

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Jeannette Lofas, Ph.D, LCSW

President and Founder of Stepfamily Foundation, Inc., Dr. Lofas has been managing stepfamilies for thirty years. In 1995 Lofas received a presidential award for her work. Research reports that she has an 84% success rate. A stepchild and stepmother herself, she is considered to be the leading authority on stepfamilies. Dr. Lofas has written five books: Living In Step, McGraw-Hill, Stepparenting, Citadel, How to Be a Stepparent, Nightingale Connant; He's OK, She's OK: Honoring the Differences Between Men & Women, and Tzedakah, Family Rules, Kensington Books.

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