That's ridiculous. If Elise refused to take out the garbage it would end up in her bedroom until she did.

I get slightly annoyed with the whole "I can't control my kids" stuff. My parents raised nine of us, and without ever hitting us all she had to do was look at us and I would jump.

If I disobeyed something, my father would never yell, he would leave me a chore list three pages long and I would go nowhere, do nothing, and wouldn't be allowed near the phone until it was done. Period.

And as for the lawn thing? They would have moved me out before they moved out.