Best parenting advice I have ever seen:

[Irving]

I'd say the kind of distant overseer aspect is my main disagreement with the article.

I was just going to comment on this, and how they completely left it out of the article. None of this is possible without intense contact and attention from the parents. My wife wanted to work out and didn't have time to make me dinner tonight, so our six year-old made me dinner. I was very seriously impressed. Here it is:



Our daughter didn't learn to make a sandwich because we forced her to cook for herself. She learned by playing "restaurant" with my wife many nights where they make dinner together. She even included the side and a drink.

As far as cleaning toilets and stuff goes, it only takes 15 minutes to clean a toilet if you do a GREAT job. A kid missing out on 15 minutes of play time is no issue.