I know that first LW has posted on this board and given more information about the situation, but I wanted to put two things out there in the whole chore/gratitude of children debate. 1) All children are not the same. To say that children are ungrateful is doing a disservice to the children who are grateful to their parents. I am fully aware of all that my parents have done from the mudane, clothing and feeding me, to the intangibles, encouraging me in my academic and artistic pursuits and am incredibly grateful to them. All of the things that they've done, including instilliling responsibility through chores, were done out of their love and their hopes of giving me the tools to be a responsible, self-sufficient adults. 2) As I said mentioned above, I had to do chores. In addition to these chores, I frequently had to assist my dad, who was a stay-at-home dad, with fixing things around the house and the cars. More than once I grumbled about having to assist, particularly copper plumbing, but you know what all of that assisting did. It made me familiar with plumbing, heating, automobiles, and electrical work, not enough that I feel like I could go out and wire a house, but enough that I'll know when people are trying to pull a fast one on me.