Reply #21: I'm with you. [View All]

Making kids work IS good for their character. I have a teen and I do know that kids today are a lot lazier than they were in my "day."
(My "day" being the sixties and seventies.) Sometimes it seems that even asking them to clean their rooms is considered abusive by some people. Sheesh! As long as the conditions of the work are reasonable (and there is nothing in any of this that implies that they are not), there is nothing wrong with that type of punishment.

When I was a child, one of my mother's favorite punishments was making an "offender" wash the floors in the house along with "grounding" for a certain amount of time. Knowing that friends were going off to see a movie while you had to stay home and scrub floors was very effective for teaching you to behave yourself.