appropriate age.

as soon as you cut the cord!

I think they are too young to do both the work. You can however ask your daughter to keep the dishes in place while you wash them. Your son can learn to throw things in the dustbin and may be bring you water from the kitchen hand you a bottle of water from the fridge. keep his shoes in place, put his clothes for washing seprately from the one he is going to wear. Make himself a butter or jam sandwich.Simple tasks that you can put in simple words. My son has now started washing things he uses like glasses and plates just by watching me do them and just for fun. he is seven and still uses lots of soap and water to wash a single thing. I do not discourage him though and join in the fun. Thats how he will learn, if I make it in to a chore he will dislike it and will never volunteer to do that again. I am trying to make it in to a habit with him. That will really be then worthwhile.

I think phsyically those could both be a little challenging. Well, the challenge may be more for the condition of your dishes! Seriously though, I think that teaching them responsibility at a young age is great. Just make sure its something they can do, so they don't just get frustrated!

A child is never too young to learn responsibilities. At that young of age I wouldn't suggest letting her do the dishes. I have a 7 year old, a 9 year old, and a 13 year old. My 7 year old keeps the living room clean. By this I mean, she picks up the dirty clothes, trash and other things that don't belong in the living room. She also sweeps. Sweeping isn't apart of her chore and she's not the best at it, but she wants to do it and I let her and let her know she did good. She started this chore at age 5 and has gotten better at it. I gave her this chore because she us young and it doesn't require alot. My 9 year old cleans the bathroom. She cleans the sink, around the tub, takes out the trsh, and takes out the dirty clothes, and sweeps. Now she doesn't use any kind of cleaners, I do that. My 13 year old cleans the kitchen. She cleans the table and the counters, puts away the clean dishes, neatly stacks the dirty dishes for me to wash, and sweeps. They are all responsible for the rooms, making sure their dirty clothes are in the laundry room, and putting their clean clothes up. But that is what my children can do. You have to decide what your kids can and can not handle. Start them off small. For about a month have them keep their room clean, then add something else to it, like picking up dirty clothes. Or helping put their clothes away. Don't give them too much at once though. They will be overwhilmed. I started my kids off with small responsiblities and as they got older or was able to handle small things I added to them! Hope this helped! Good luck!

I think it just depends on your child and how responsible they are. I wouldn't want a 6 year old hyper active child washing my dishes. lol As their parent you have to decide what they can and cannot do. Slowly add responsibilities that are small and that will give you a good idea. I don't know if i would want a 4 year old taking out the trash. Instead, they can dust the furniture and learn how to make their bed.

Pprobably you can teach them when they are 10.As of now you can teach them to do their work by themselves like, polishing shoe,keeping the clothes in their place etc.I personally feel that there must a kind of maturity with teh kids to take up responsiblity at their early stage and this will come only after 10yrs.If you still insist on teaching them now, just have them beside you so that they can watch what you do and help you. Latter can learn to do by themselves.