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Thank you We need cooperation at home Ala shmoop you

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know how your mom is always asking you to clean

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your room or take out the garbage or stop taking

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the neighbor's garbage cans to make yourself a drum kit

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No just us anyway and you know how you don't

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always do the things mama asked because she always picks

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the worst time to ask you to do him like

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when you're just about to finish carving your own drum

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sticks out of your dining room table Sure you know

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you should do it but what's the harm in waiting

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to carry out mom's orders there Well besides this table

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leg isn't gonna carve itself so you tell mom you'll

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do it later and later and later look familiar Yeah

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well guess what that's not cooperating In fact that's the

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opposite of cooperating when you complain endlessly instead of helping

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solve a problem you're becoming part of a bigger one

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like having a hack your way through a cornfield to

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get to school every morning A family like a baseball

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team requires cooperation If one of the players on the

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team checks out well the other team will score run

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After run after run we don't know about you but

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we don't love it when our team is slaughtered maybe

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not the best choice of words there moving away from

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the whole slaughtering analogy What would happen if your mom

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and dad suddenly decided they didn't want to cooperate with

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you that from now on you're on your own pal

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Because you're looking out on ly for numero uno that

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means no more rides to school from mom No more

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food waiting for you at home no more doing your

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laundry all that water and electricity use while someone's gotta

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pay for it won't be them oana rent around this

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area Yeah six fifty a month power they accept cash

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or cheque Sounds great right Well but seriously if you

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don't want to do your part help out around the

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house why should anyone else do theirs That's there you

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want to pitch a tent in the forest and forage

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to stay alive Hale go for it But if you'd

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rather have a roof over your head well then kitchen

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Listen your parents when they ask you to do something

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and realize that they can't do everything alone they need

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Your help They're getting old And because we're still ashamed

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of our last analogy while we're going to try One

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more family household is like a carefully constructed game of

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jenga If one person doesn't carry his or her own

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weight the whole mess can come toppling down well a

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rapidly crumbling home slightly better than a slaughtering But we're

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going to call it a day on analogies You

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