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When families struggle with consensus-based household management

My teenage kids think our family's open source approach to household rules and chores is amazing but my spouse thinks it's creating chaos because nothing ever gets decided and everyone just debates everything endlessly.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A family attempting democratic governance is learning that infinite discussion can become its own form of dysfunction.

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