away.
Another point of view that is acceptable to the authors of Love and
Logic is that parents take care of the pets, and the kids take care of the
parents by doing adult chores to replace the time and energy expended by
the parents.
The other alternative is to take care of the pets ourselves. But if our
children know that Smokey will be fed by Mom or that Rodent’s cedar
chips will be changed by Dad, they’ll cease to worry about Smokey or
Rodent. Pet care is then our problem, not theirs. The choice is ours.
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