Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Cleaning is therapy for me. I'm not ashamed of holding the duster or broom.
We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.
I really have to force myself to tidy up around the house.
I have a life. My kids don't run my house.
One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.
There's nothing better for kids than a bucket and shovel at the beach.
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still and waited for the dirt to collect. We kids were carriers. We ran a pickup and delivery service.