What chores do your children help you with around the house on a daily/weekly basis? And how old are they?

Answer 1

Its a good thing to give your children a responsibility of chores around the house and a good way for them to earn their pocket money. My children are old enough to empty the bin, and dishwasher, even use the washing machine!
Being a single parent and working full time its important for everyone in the house to help out. After all its long gone that the Mother stayed at home and the males went out to work. If we don't educate our children with the every day chores around the house how will they learn when they move on into independent living. My children all boys, 16, 15, 12, 11 years old. Good luck!

Answer 2

My son started around 2 - folding washcloths and dishtowels. He also liked to dust and vacuum!
Just added more chores as it was age-appropriate. The most important thing is to not tie chores to an allowance. Children need to help around the house simply because they are part of the family, and everyone pitches in!
My son is 16 today (that went so fast!) and he could pretty much look after all the housework himself! He hasn't had that much experience cooking, though.
For him, now, chores depend upon how much homework he has because he's in gr. 11. He does the garbage, the cat litter, unloads and loads the dishwasher, helps with grocery shopping and putting groceries away, does laundry, shovels snow, does other outside work, vacuums -- and some of these things he truly "likes" to do! Good kid!

Answer 3

My 3 boys (13y, 8y and 3y) all do chores. The older two have a chart which includes: make bed, brush teeth, shower, wash face, feed dogs/cat/birds, clean room, and other mundane daily actions that they should be in a habit of doing when they are grown and on their own. They have to do this chart before they can watch TV or play any video games daily. If they fail to do their chart and plop in front of the TV or play video games first, they lose it for the rest of the day and the next day. In addition, sometimes my oldest two help me with trash, cleaning up the kitchen/dishes, etc. My 3 yr old gets simple chores like throwing away trash and cleaning the kitchen table with a damp rag. Hope this helps!

Answer 4

mine are 5 and nearly 3.

the five year old has to help putting clean dishes away and loves it when I let her wash up the plastic stuff (sometimes I have to give them a once over but she's helping so its okay.)
she also helps to put re-cycling rubbish out (trash bags are too heavy)
she loves to clean the bath and sink so i usually let her do that too. oh and she has to make her bed too.
They are both a bit little to have chores like washing dishes, sweeping and cleaning regularly but they have to help me with stuff like;
both of them have to put their own dirty dishes in the sink after a meal, tidy their rooms and put dirty washing in the basket. also putting their outside toys away.

they get some loose change pocket money when I see fit but not a regular amount yet. when they are a little older they will have their own chores to do and will receive a couple of dollars a week which will increase as they get older.

my sisters kids are 9 and 11 and the 11 year old has to do the dinner dishes while the 9 year old dries them. she also has to sweep the kitchen and wipe the tables down. the nine year old has to clean up the bathroom, dirty towels clothes etc...they both have to clean their own rooms, put clean folded clothes away and one feeds the dog the other feeds the cat. I think their pocket money is the same as half their age so the 11 yr old gets $5.50 and so on. (she also has a four year old that is much like my daughter and doesn't do much but gets a couple of dollars to help her older sisters out.)

Answer 5

Well, I'm a child of a mother who believes helping out around the house is necessary to her sanity.

I have a brother and sister. We, along with my mother, alternate cooking days. My brother cooks mon., sister tues., me wed., mom thurs., dad fri., repeat. [this rule has existed in our house since i was 13. First my mom or dad showed us how to prepare meals so we would feel confident about cooking.]

We are also assigned a room to clean... dust, sweep/mop, vaccum, the works- once a week.

Twice a month is yard work. [whole fam.]

We each started the cooking process at thirteen, with LOTS of help. Specific Room cleaning was around 15/16 along with the rest of the chores.

I can say now, as a twenty year old that this method is pretty effective. Our house stays cleaner, and we felt responsibility as teenagers. We also felt that our parents could trust us.

Answer 6

my 9 year old will make tea and coffee( great on a weekend when he'll bring them to the bedroom!!), empty the dishwasher, tidy his room, fetch the wheelie bin in, empty the tumble drier and take out the recycling. my 4 year old will tidy her room, empty the cutlery basket from the dishwasher, put small bags of rubbish in the wheelie bin and make an attempt at sweeping the floor.they are both trained in the art of stripping their beds on wash day and always put their dirty clothes in the wash basket.the 9 yr old even washes the bath out after he's used it !! i think it's important that kids help around the house-it gives them life skills for when they are older and makes them realise that mum is not an unpaid skivvy only there to pick up after them.

Answer 7

My 3yr old loves to help around the house. He helps with the washing, I will give him a duster and he helps with that as much as he can, and has recently been helping with the vacuuming. I may have to go over bits he's done again, but it is the fact he is 'helping' me which is more important at his age. Wonder if I'll still be saying that in 10 years time?!

Answer 8

I have a 12 year old daughter she loads the dishwasher, keeps her room tidy and sorts the washing ready to wash also dusts and polishes and sometimes she will vacuum as my partner and I both work full time we all share the household chores

Answer 9

My boys had age appropriate chores right from when they were little and by the time that they were twelve they were washing and ironing their own clothes (under supervision!) and could cook a full meal.Today they thank me for teaching them that.
I'm not sure that my grandsons will have the same sort of upbringing but I certainly make sure that they help out over doing the dishes and so on when they are *here* - and they enjoy it most of the time too!

Answer 10

Our 3 and 4 y/o pick up their toys, pick up their trash, take their dishes to the kitchen and put their coats and shoes away. Our 6 and 7 y/o's do the above and sweep, vacuum and put their laundry away. Out 18 y/o does anything we ask.