Advice to parents

You should always have, on file, a photograph of your children caught in the act of doing the dishes. I took the picture on the right when my daughter Claire was perhaps 16 or 17 while, in a moment of folly, she agreed to do the dishes and actually did them. She did the dishes again while visiting me a couple of weeks ago. I have replaced picture #1, which was on my fridge, with picture #2, so that Claire never forgets that she can do the dishes and will do them if asked to do so. In fact, most of the time, she volunteers to do them because, believe it or not, it is something that she likes to do!