Do Your Children Try To Help You Clean Or Do Chores Around Your House?

My children argue when i ask them to tidy up the mess that they have made in their bedrooms.I have 6 children and the 2 oldest will always do their room and they will always make a drink,i do not know if it because they are girls.The 4 boys they will not do anything at all,not even when i tell them they will not have their friends as well as they will not be allowed out to play.

hi singlemommy I was just thinking back to when my adult son was 6 and I had just come home from having had hemorraid surgery and my mom and my sis came to see me. I was lying down asleep, and my son was sweeping the floors. He told my mom and sis dont wake my mom up , shes not feeling good. boy was my mom teed off but I was so thrilled that he had cleaned house for me, and I had not asked him to at all.

3 years is quiet a young age to start the work...actually what happens that when children are not able to do the work, they try to do it with more interest and due to curiosity of learning ..but once they become bigger enough and they know it properly to do...then they don't feel like doing it..my 11 years daughter has learned to make tea recently, and making with great interest when i say about her skills to someone that she makes good tea..but slowly her interest declined when she made it number of times...that's it.

He sounds like a real tresure and loves helping his mummy.Make the most of it as my sixteen year old son tends to put the piles of dirt there in the first place.I used to pay him pocket money for helping me but that stopped when the house hold help stopped,he is not a bad boy but rather untidy.

Thankfully both of my children like to help me around the house. They both have set chores that they are to do, weekly but always try to help by doing something extra. I just had major surgery so my son who is 7, does little things to help me out when I am not expecting it, like putting up the dishes, which isn't an regular chore of his, or vacuming the floor. It's nice to know that he watches me take care of the house and had learned that that's something that has to be done and takes alot of work. My little girl who is 2, likes to sweep... and though she's not great with it, it's still nice to know she's helping.

Oh your're lucky for having a son helping in the household chores. I hope my daughter will do the same. I dont know if she just dont feel like helping, she said she has lots of homework, school projects and exams in school that she has to finish those whole day and night. She has very few hours of sleep due to school requirements and she has no time to help me do the house work anymore. I understand it though sometimes i really feel tired and she still has lots of demands from me. She just pile her things, books, notebooks, school bag in one corner at the foot of her bed and it gets higher and higher until weekend and when weekend comes she still has no time to arrange them.I often tell her bout the value cleanliness and order in the house but still no effect. When i got tired looking at that corner i fix and arranged her things but she gets angry because she does'nt like the way i arrange them. Well, i hope someday she'll realize a clean and orderly house is nice to live with.

sure;y.Children in fact are to be trained in all household chores for they are the ones who should lead their own family set ups. yes

My kids have both always been really into trying to help me out when I am cleaning up. Unfortunately most of the time they end up making more of a mess than helping out, but it is nice to see them trying. Take advantage of it while he is still in the mood to help out. When they get to the age where we want to start giving them chores they will not be so willing to help out.

tHAT WAS SWEET, ENJOY IT WHILE U CAN. tHEY OUTGROW THAT, LOL. mY GRANDSON HELPS ME WHEN HE IS HERE. When they get older they forget mom needs help or mine do anyway.

Well it is nice to see a child making an effort to help in the household chore in the their own little way. Not all children do. It is for us parents or adults to teach them the value of being helpful and industrious. We should be patient in teaching them the right way to do it because their capacity is still very limited. We should start training the child as early as possible so that it will not be difficult for them to get used to the habit of being obedient, helpful, and hardworking. Let us encourage them by commending them for every helpful action they did and we should also teach them by being a good example.

From the time my children were very little they have had to help around the house, that is the way I was raised and I think it helped me in later life. Sometimes it's so much easier to just do it yurself, but you do your children no favor by doing that. Now there are even more things they will need to learn at home, schools have cut back on so many extra classes. You are doing the right thing by including them.

I have a 4 year old son and a 1 1/2 year old son and neither of them will clean on there own of course but if I am cleaning with the Vaccuum my 1 year old will get his toy vaccuum and help clean.. So now I got smart. For christmas I bought him a toy vaccuum that really picks up..haha.. SO now he could REALLY HELP ME.. He also enjoys to sweep and dust.

Hi singlemommy,Yes,i encourage them to help at least once a week to make them learn some household chores.Thanks,Have a nice day!

My children known that I hate coming home to an untidy home so whenever I go out they tidy up the living room, wash the dishes and try to have the place looking neat. My kids go to school long hours but still help out when they get home, like folding the clothes and putting them away, they could even fix a light snack if asked. Incidentally, I have four of them.

We have 9 in our family: six girls ages - 16,14,11,7,5,3 and one boy age 13 months). I enlist the help of my two oldest to do their own laundry as well as dishes and sweeping the floor. Our third daughter is required to wash the table after every meal. I have the younger girls do things as I ask them. When I ask all of them to clean their rooms it becomes a BIG hassle most times. Sometimes they do their chores without asking or complaint; those are the best times. other times it is like "pulling teeth" to get them to do the most basic of things. Our little boy helped me put puzzle pieces away it was the sweetest thing I ever saw. I think the best thing to do to get them to do chores without asking or complaining is to have them follow by example ( ie- don't complain when you are doing it:), write up a chore list and start them doing chores when they are young so it becomes a good habit and to build character. Sincerely in Christ, Leesa C. Eph.2:8,9 PS- speaking of sweeping, my 5 y.o. helped me sweep on Saturday and it was such a blessing that she asked to help me!

I WISH my kid would try to help do chores around the house, but if it doesn't involve an X-box controller, a computer keyboard, or a spoon, my kid is not getting it done LOL She has got to be the laziest person I have ever encountered...

oh yes..but both kids differ. my daughter who is 5 years old has to be persuaded to help.. lol she is on the lazy side. especially when she is watching her favorite cartoons she does not even want to get up and do something! but at times she helps me when i do offer her rewards like her favorite cookie or her favorite cake..so i have to use reward method with her to help me around the house. But with my son, who is now 2 and 6 month old..he is the helpful one, i do not have to tell him what to do, and since he is still too young i do not really ask him for help unless when i try to test him to do something for me if he will do it and he does! Sometimes, he would even surprise me by getting a broom and he would try to sweep after he ate some cookie and he would try to sweep the crumbles..and yes you are right, it is quite a very nice feeling seeing them trying to help you. but then i do not force them, but i do start to make them see that sooner they would have chores to accomplish as they grow up and most of the time, the reward method works. hehehe they get what they want when they would work hard for it. :D

It is definitely true that when our kids help us without being told, it touches our heart and makes us smile. My 3 year old daughter helps me in my daily chores. She'll throw the waste in bin, clean up her toys, keep her things in its place and few other small things like that. I'm really happy about it.

Yes sometimes if he really feels like helping me and his daddy. But still there are things that you need to redo what he did. But ofcourse its i am very appreciative of what he did even in a small way of helping. At least my six-year- old son knew the virtue of doing chores at home. Every night i always tell him to fix his things and keep it locked at his cabinet. And its really nice that he listens to what we as parents told him to do so. Thank you son for helping us doing chores you can do. We love you son.

I used to make chores into games for my kids when they were small. As long as it was fun, they were more than happy to help. It seems that the older they got, the harder it has been to get any help from them around the house, though. My son is 18 now and I have to practically throw a hand grenade in his room to get him to simply take out the trash.