Kids Chores

Mine helps me pick up her own toys though she is only a toddler. She loves to help out around the house, because I started her early on thinking that it was fun. I don't pay her, because I already give her toys and other stuff at other times. I don't want it to be about money for her. My friend has a technique that works with her teen. She tells her teen that she has 20 minutes to clean her room. If at the end of that time, she'll come into the room with a trash bag. And, anything left on the floor will go into the trash, permanantly. It's a real motivator. I'm not sure if it would work on a six year old. But, kids don't like the idea of losing their stuff either. So, maybe. Best of luck.

I have a 8 and 3 year old kids. With them, I always told them to keep their toys after playing, if they wouldn't I told them that they could not play with it anymore or I will give them to th neighbouring kids. This always works. With my 3 yo, at first I let him see as an example on how to keep his toys, I help him keep them, till he is the only one keeping them now. I don't pay them for doing there chores but I always praise them if they have finished doing it. Because my older son is already responsible, I let my younger son immitate what my older son is doing, so he is also doing light chores.

kids they have brain sickness they forget easily eg. you tell them evey day to do the same thing they only way i would pay them is if they paid me my little bro i have to remind him daily of what to do i think that if you make them do it now you wont have to do it when they are older

I can relate to you!. My kids wouldn't pick up, so I got to the point that I picked up and put the toys or clothes in boxes and stored them for a few months. I made my kids do chores. I got a roll of nickels for each kid and had a chore list for each day on the wall. If they didn't do the chore, they didn't get paid. At the end of the week they got paid for the chores they did. It might work on the older ones, but I think you will just have to keep working with the 2 year old.

There are many ways. You just have to try again and again before something sticks. I have a 6, 4 and 1 year old. I have tried tons of things. We have used a chore chart adn chore wheel, we tried sticker charts and incentives, we even tried allowance. Mostly what I found out worked, is making it into a game, and on thier good days, a race. It usually worked. And the youngest one is so into copying everything the older two do, that he likes to do it to. Lots and lots of praise and very dramatic and over the top work for us too. They get so proud. We usually make it like a gift to someone kind of thing. Like won't this be a nice surprise for daddy when he gets home today? Or if friends are coming over, they will be so wowed that you can do such a great job all by yourselves.