Chores

My boys are older than my daughter and when they were growing up, I had a chore chart. They would have certain chores every day that they had to do such as make their bed, bring their dirty laundry to the laundry room and clean their spots at the dinner table. Then I assigned daily chores that rotated for them like set the table, empty the dishwasher and do the dishes. I think it helped them alot become responsible teenagers. Now my oldest is living with his girlfriend(he is 20) and I notice that he is always doing chores and helping around their house. My daughter is now 8 and she also does chores. She has the same responsibilities as her brothers did. Now at dinner time, all my kids clear their spots from the table and my daughter usually does the dishes. They all still bring their laundry down stairs. They pretty much clean up after themselves and respect that I like a clean house.

My son when he is old enough will do chores. I think that if a child has chores it will teach them some sort of responisbilty.

My daughter has chores to do. We all work every week and we all have our own chores that need to be done.

The only real chore my son has is taking the recycling out to the garage and crushing the cans. He does not get an allowance for it, but he does get to keep the money from the cans when they get turned in.

Yes all my children have chores and they receive pay for doing them too. One of them absolutely hates having to do it but he does as he knows that no chores means no pay and no pay means no games or trading cards or whatever he is into at the time!!! I do have the problems with the bedroom, they are really untidy in that area but I must admit they have kept it pretty clean since the last time, could be because I made them clean it to within an inch of its life so they do not want to have to do it again lol!

Both of my boys are grown but they did have chores. Taking th trash out, feeding the dogs, making their beds (their favorite!) and cleaning their rooms. They fussed about the rooms too but when they got to be teenagers they learned quickly that when the weekend came and their rooms had not been cleaned they stayed at home. My oldest lives in his own place and he is a pretty good housekeeper so I guess it helped. My youngest is still in the process of it! LOL At least it taught both of them responsibility even if they didn't get the task down as well as they should have! LOL

Yes, my daughter does chores. She's only 5, 6 in March, and she helps to pick up her toys etc in the lounge room every night, sometimes she helps with drying the dishes, helps hubby and me outside with the gardening, tidying up outside, cleans her room, and various other things aswell. We don't over do it and get her do alot in one day as we like it to be fun for her, and not as though she has to do it etc. She likes doing what she does, and she does enough around the house to satisfy me that she's pulling her weight. She also likes to feed the cat aswell.