The House Fairy

　　As young parents, my husband and I felt that at age 6 and 8, our children were old enough to be cleaning their rooms and making their beds. But they thought

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　　. My complaints, repeating myself, even self-justified shouting were landing on

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　　ears. I felt frustrated (沮丧的) , and very often a whole afternoon’s scolding would end with their

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　　into tears, I realized I needed to

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　　my methods of “mothering”.

　　One day while they were at school, I had great fun

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　　their rooms. On their desks, in plain

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　　, I left the cards: “Dear Bill (the other card was

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　　to Sarah), your room was messy this morning and I’m sure you like it clean. Love, the House Fairy. ”

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　　arriving back, the children were

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　　excited to receive the little note from the House Fairy. The next day, their rooms were fairly tidy. Sure enough, there was another note from the House Fairy

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　　for them, thanking them for their nice “gift” of a clean room and

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　　asking them to play a certain violin

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　　. Each day, thank--you notes would be worded differently to keep the ideas

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