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Chores Causing Asthma Attacks?

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                                                                            Do you ever feel like you make things worse when you try to clean? That when you do chores, it just stirs up the dust? Or that the strong scented cleaning supplies set off your asthma? We ran into this problem when my kids were little. My kids thought I was the Meanest Mom Ever because I would make them help with chores.  I would tell them that they helped make the mess, so they had to help clean it up. Makes sense, right?! They complained that their friends didn't have to clean their rooms-  their mom or the cleaning lady did it for them.  I would tell them that my job as a mom was to teach them how to clean, because they would have to clean when they went to college and got their own place.  So, yep. I am the Meanest Mom Ever Trying to figure out chores for the kids to do can be a challenge. They are different ages so we had to try to make it seem "fair" and age appropriate. Dividing up chores