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How to Get Kids to Do Chores: Does the Maya Method Work?

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233 points Xcelerate | 1 comments | 04 Sep 18 00:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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interatx ◴[04 Sep 18 02:15 UTC] No.17906150[source]▶
We pair program with new hires on simpler tasks and gradually build them up. Sounds very similar.
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ngngngng ◴[04 Sep 18 02:26 UTC] No.17906184[source]▶
I'm having my first kid soon and have pretty high ambitions for teaching him to program. Maybe I'll try the pair programming/Mayan chore method to get him up to speed.
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1. pstuart ◴[04 Sep 18 02:32 UTC] No.17906209[source]▶
Be prepared to be ignored. Don’t give up, but the little buggers tend to have their own agenda.