What are the examples of childrens' chores for the different age groups?

Everyone, thank you but please go back and reread the OP because I don’t know how it happened but I was editing it while the 2 or 3 of you answered already. If I clicked on Ask Fluther, it must have been for a second or 2, or so. That’s not enough time to read the detail part for sure.

The path from infancy to adulthood is long and twisty, consisting of countless steps along the way. The progress has to be incremental, and adults must be patient, but children can’t be cossetted or over-indulged. When kids are given age-appropriate responsibilities and held accountable, they learn the skills of everyday living. Doing chores gives a child a sense of being more capable for having managed time and met obligations.

Chores are an effort for parents. It’s easier, in the short run, just to do the tasks onself and skip all the constant reminding, instructions, and discipline. But, it’s so much better to foster capabilities.

I had household chores from a very young age. I remember helping my Mom set and then clear the dinner table; I sorted my own white and dark laundry; I learned how to dust furniture with a rag and Pledge from a spray can. By adolescence, I was able to set a table properly, do my own laundry, and value a clean home. Was my mother “mean” to me? No, she taught me how to be a self-sufficient adult.

Wow, that’s different!
Mine started when they could pick stuff up. We would make a game of putting things into what they had come out of, I’m guessing about 18 months. As long as it is turned into a game, they’re happy.
Taking responsibility for themselves, their stuff and their actions can start very early.

@flo – you changed your question entirely…was it after responses you received?

It was long enough to read the details of the previous post, which is why you got so many responses.

@imrainmaker No that’s why I’m stunned. I clicked on *Ask Fluther” and almost in no time I clicked Edit. I guess it’s not possible to see that the question is being edited?

From experience and observation it seems that 18 – 24 months is a good time to start with really tiny but appropriate chores (like putting one toy away before bringing out the next one).

That is nothing like your original question. Now my answer makes no sense. I flagged my first answer.

@Love_my_doggie Love your answer! Please see the other part of the detail? For example have you ever heard a particular chore to be too inappropriate (too much) for a let’s say a 15 yr. old?

@BellaB Makes sense.

@canidmajor Your 2nd and 4th posts, good answers!

Well to answer your question I have done all types of chores from age of 14 (may be before that too) to help my mom as she was unwell and I didn’t mind doing it at any point of time. I’m here because of my parents and won’t forget that ever.

So no one here is demonizing parents for giving children chores. Thank goodness.

In my experience, 8 is a great age to start firing incompetent house staff, character building & hugely entertaining too, with the right mindset.

I was teased by my dad for doing the dishes and said that I was doing women’s work. I stopped and my dad kicked open my bedroom door on exam week at 3 am in the morning and forced me to wash the dishes without soap or a dish rag. I had to use my fingernails to clean the stuck on food. I stopped all cleaning of the house an to this day I use paper plates and take out as often as possible. So In some cases chores can be degrading. My grandpa had a better plan. He refused to let me do chores so I would sneak behind his back and mow the lawn. Good trick. For age to do chores is if the child has extra time to cause problems then he she is old enough to take on a little more. It might be trial and error to see what the chore they can handle. Also if they expect an allowance it’s pay per play.

^^^ First, your father belittled and humiliated you because you were washing the dishes (i.e. doing “women’s work”). Then, he abused you for not having washed the dishes. What a horrifying story. That man scarred you. I’m saddened by everything you’ve written.

I should be better about giving my kid chores, but as someone said above it’s just so much easier to do it myself.

He has the task of feeding his pets every morning, and scooping the kitty litter. If the dog has an accident in the house (he’s not been quite the same since his car accident) Ian will clean it up.

Anything beyond that is work-as-ordered. He’s tasked with clearing sticks out of the yard and into the fire pit before his Daddy mows the lawn, and occasionally I’ll have him vacuum the floor, or gather stray laundry from around the house. He helps with the laundry at the laundromat, as well. That’s about it.

We do have a rule that if people in the family are working he has to be working, too. So he’s not sitting at his computer watching YouTube while everyone else is clearing out the shed or whatever. I did keep him out of the way when I was painting the living room, though. Again, for my sanity.

He’s eight.