How do you teach your kids to help out with household chores? I am very frustrated with trying to get my kids to help. It seems like I ask, and ask, and ask til I'm blue in the face to get anyone to do anything. I'm beginning to wish I could start all over from the minute Evan was born by having him learn to pick up after himself. That is a ridiculous thought, I know, but after 5 kids, I am learning quickly what I 'should' have been having them do from the time they were tiny. Not only Evan, but all of them. Then I look at Paige and think, what can I start having her do right now? Hold her while I do household necessities to 'show' her how? yes, maybe - but it's hard to do much while holding a baby.
6 years ago
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I just started having my kids help clean too, Kim. It is much harder to teach them then to just do it yourself. But I am doing a chore wheel, and have simple things like sweeping, taking out the trash and scrubbing the toilets. (We do them on Saturday). All supervised (especially the toilets) and the age of the kid. And we started having them pick up their rooms everyday, instead of building up and being a huge awful job that takes them all saturday to clean. It isn't too late to start. (at least that is what I've been telling myself) It has worked fairly well so far... Good luck Kim!
yeah, I'm working on it recently too. I wrote down a list of chores they could do to earn money. And then there are other things that I just ask/expect them to do. Like Audrey always sets the dinner table. Luke always puts the clean silverware away. I make them put their own laundry away and stuff like that. So yeah-- nagging and bribery... Except I want it to be part expectation (nagging) and part learning to earn your own way (bribery). I'm open to suggestions for sure though!
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