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Coming up, ever ask your kids to help clean up a mess
and they genuinely look confused, like they don't even see the mess at all?
Well, turns out there's a name for that: cognitive labor.
And it doesn't stop with kids.
Coming up, we'll get into it and by the end of our chat,
you might start seeing your own house and the people who live in it completely differently.
You've done this, I'm sure, if you're a parent,
because every parent has done this at some point.
You look at your kid standing in a room that is a total mess—
clothes on the floor, dishes on the tables,
backpacks exploded seemingly in the hallway.
And you say, "Hey, can you help me clean this up?"
They genuinely look around the room and they say, "Help with what?"
Well, your first instinct as a parent perhaps is to think that they're lying,
or at least stalling, or maybe even being sarcastic on purpose.
But there's real research out there suggesting that they're not lying at all.