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Article: Home chore artists.(Children's art diary)
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- Arts & Activities
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- October 1, 2003
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Dear Art Teacher, Please list all the home chores you hate to do on the side of this paper. Do you have enough room? Let's talk about those chores with which you need help, but over which you have to bargain with your older kids who ask, "How much do I get?"
Now, relax and close your eyes to travel back in time to your childhood, when helping around the house was so much fun that you eagerly volunteered for everything. Do you remember how every chore was new and exciting, the inventions you brought to it, never doing it less than artistically? Do you remember begging your morn to let you help with a chore or asking your dad to wait until you came home because you ...