US picketing parents seek to reverse offsprings' slacker ways

0 Comments | AFP, December, 2004

MIAMI (AFP) — A Florida couple marked one week on strike in front of their home, and vowed not to end their protest camp-out until their kids start doing their fair share of the household chores.

Harlan and Cat Bernard said that not even the unusually frigid temperatures in their central Florida town of Deltona in recent days would convince them to end their strike, which they launched after years of exasperation that their son Ben, 17, and daughter Kit, 12, could not be prevailed upon help out around the house.

The last straw came last week when the kids refused to mow the lawn, leaving the chore to their mom -- apparently unfazed that their mom was under the weather and recovering from dental surgery.

The parents went out on strike last Monday, pitching a...