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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: 0.344s | source
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otterpro ◴[04 Sep 18 01:47 UTC] No.17906052[source]▶
I'd like to add step 0.

* No smartphones in the house.

It allows the parents to be "present", as well as eliminate the greatest source of distraction, which applies to both the parents and the kids.

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bdamm ◴[04 Sep 18 02:06 UTC] No.17906116[source]▶
This would require convincing my other family members to give up their smartphones (such as my wife) and that ain't going to happen. You see, unless the family you've made is a strict dictatorship, there's more than one vote. And I don't want to live in or create a dictatorship.
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1. bigbugbag ◴[04 Sep 18 08:29 UTC] No.17907499[source]▶
From what you describe it seems you already live under the dictatorship of the locked down pocket computer that can be used to make phone calls.

Clearly your family is engaging in voluntary servitude and is probably highly dependent.