“Before plopping the pan into soapy water to clean, try allowing the child inside you to experiment with making a design in the last remnants of food or in this case, mostly hardened chocolate. No one’s watching. If your children are with you, create a tic tac toe board and play a game before clean up. The playfulness of attitude may even entice a child to learn how to wash the dishes after licking and drawing in the pan together. It’s an age old trick that Mary Poppins modeled, of how making work fun gets the job done in a jiffy.”
