There are lots of chores to do around the house. Intuitively, it would seem help from dad to accomplish these chores would be a good thing, but it can actually be counter-productive. Despite the fact that dad helps with chores, he also tends to break a lot of the equipment he uses to complete the chores, which creates more work for me in the long run. There are a few feeback loops at work here. B1 and B2 are both balancing loops in which we both knock out chores. R1 describes the way dad increases the chore load. Because everytime he does a chore, he breaks equipement that i have to go back and fix, the chore load actually increases each time the cycle passes. My only saving grace (because dad feels the need to help whether i want it or not) is that eventaully dad will get frustrated when the equipment breaks and leave the rest for me to do, thus alleviating the broken equipment problem.
Rob,
ReplyDeleteThis feels familiar! I think I've had this experience, but in the reverse when my kids were very young and wanted to help in the yard!
Nicely done.