Chores: the one parenting topic on which all the experts actually agree. Kids should be doing them.
Kids: universal oath that said chores must be avoided at all costs, whined about excessively, completed haphazardly — and only after substantial compensation is negotiated.
Parents: painfully aware of the state the house is in, depleted from all the fruitless nagging, yet somehow managing to hang on to hope that a chore chart will do the trick this time. Also, not entirely losing their sense of humour, as evidenced by these tweets.