Aaron & Isaac

How to get your kids to do the dishes

One day, Isaac wanted to play "You be Isaac, I'll be daddy". He put me to sleep, sang me a good-night song and then said "Now I'll go do the dishes", which is always the first thing I do after lights out.

I wanted to see how this would go, so I stayed "asleep" until I heard the kitchen sink running. Sure enough, Isaac and Aaron were washing the dishes. I helped them get the crusty food off, and load dishes into the dishwasher. It was really slow and messy, and I don't know how no dishes were broken. But 10 minutes later, I had an empty sink and a full dishwasher!