I heard an interesting bit somewhere by some researcher arguing that due to genetics and watching us stumble through life all the time, there's very little we can do to make our kids turn out a whole lot differently than ourselves. When it came to the question of "why try, then?" his point was that you're not so much raising them to be good people, you're raising them to be good roommates.
Barring some major dysfunction, all our kids will likely end up just fine. Not teaching them to do dishes probably won't make or break them as people... it will make them much easier to live with though.
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