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

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rb666 ◴[04 Sep 18 04:15 UTC] No.17906594[source]▶
"And toddlers are great at rinsing dishes before putting them into the dishwasher."

Don't teach them kids to waste water rinsing dishes! The dishwasher works most efficiently if chunks of food are removed (scrape into trash), but not rinsed.

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orasis ◴[04 Sep 18 04:30 UTC] No.17906649[source]▶
Your values aren’t universal. In some places water is abundant.
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bigbugbag ◴[04 Sep 18 08:10 UTC] No.17907426[source]▶
Needing a couple liters of drinking water daily to stay alive is actually quite universal.

Water is abundant is the ocean, but it is not drinking water. Drinking water is a scarce resources and using it to rinse dishes that are going into a dishwasher is an unnecessary waste of a vital resource.

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1. casefields ◴[04 Sep 18 08:46 UTC] No.17907579{3}[source]▶
Go whine to Resnick and leave our rinsing habits out of this.