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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