She posts assigned chores on a kitchen cabinet; rules include curfews, no drinking or drugs and no romantic overnight guests.
Meanwhile, the other members of Brooks's large, unwieldy cast are getting on with their assigned chores.
Both came from "hardworking, middle-class families," she said, the kind of homes where children and even visitors were assigned chores.
For every Westchester child without assigned chores, I suspect there are at least 10 who are responsible for making their beds, clearing the table and putting away laundry.
The station, which houses Engine Company 234 and Ladder Company 123, is a pitch-in kind of place, with no assigned chores.
She and the other interns shared a rowhouse in Loudoun County, Va., and were assigned chores, but she came and went as she pleased and handled her own money.
As a child growing up in a tiny, German-speaking village in Romania, on the edge of Transylvania, Herta Müller was assigned chores that included herding cows.
It includes a series of rigorous requirements: attendance at Phoenix House's high school, the Phoenix Academy, which is run by the Board of Education; daily assigned chores; vocational training; and intensive therapy several times a week.
From the time we were children, we learned to do hard things and to complete our assigned chores with a sense of accomplishment and pride.
Some might say it sounds like a crutch — that kids might not be understanding or appreciating why they are doing the assigned chores and are merely playing a game to get rewards.
