Do you or did you teach your kids to do chores?

Yes. We definitely had chores and my boys did too. One cleared the table and the other washed the dishes on alternate nights among other things.

I was never told to do chores. My kids had do some things on an irregular basis. The result? One daughter is messy. The other is a total neatnik.

Golly Gosh no!!
We have staff for that.

I don’t have my daughter do chores. If she makes a mess with art projects or some baking project, she has to clean up the mess. I do the laundry. We have a dishwasher. She’s 12.

When I was a teen, I used to do the dishes. My mother may have given me a few dollars a week. I wasn’t consistent with doing the dishes. Me and my mom would go to a laundromat so that’s how I learned to do laundry.

I have friends with two sons who are in their twenties. One son no longer lives with them but the other son, who is 22, still lives with them and they do his laundry. They also pay for his cars, insurance, repairs, phones, clothes, everything. It’s totally ridiculous in my opinion and they’re not rich, so it’s not like they can easily afford it. On the other hand, it’s not my son so it’s not my problem, it’s just fascinating to see a kid be so spoiled.

Oh yes. It was vital for me, a working single Mom, for my kids to pitch in. One week one kid would have the kitchen and dining room, and the other kid would have the living room and the “parlor.” Their chores needed to be done by the time I got home from work.
Chris and I managed to make it into a challenge.
“Chris, you do the dishes this week.”
I get home and the dishes were done, but the counters weren’t wiped off and the floors weren’t swept. And the sliverware wasn’t done.
“Chris?”
“Well, you just said ‘do the dishes’ You didn’t say anything about anything else!”
Geez. It got to a point I had to make a contract for him to sign, outlining precisely what needed to be done! If it wasn’t in the contract, he didn’t do it! It kept me on my toes. I learned to think about each and every detail carefully! I miss those days. I miss that goofy kid.

Didn’t do chores growing up. And definitely think it put me at a disadvantage.

As an adult, I do all the things I need to do. But it’s something I have to remind myself to do. I wish I had grown up doing them so that it’s just second nature.

My kids don’t do laundry yet. They’re still too little to carry a large unwieldy basket downstairs and back up. But they do fold and put away clean clothes.

They help me cook. And they clear the table. We have a dishwasher, but they help rinse and load it up.

They help pull the bins out for trash day and back in when they’ve been cleared.

No monetary incentive as of yet. But debating getting a kids checking account so they learn how to balance a check book.

I didn’t give my kids any allowance either. I couldn’t afford to.

My kids made there own beds when they were 5 yrs old first thing in the morning before they came to the table for breakfast and after they were dressed and ready for school.

Older one who was the able to reach the garbage bin ( huge) threw out the garbage.

They all helped according to there abilities, they all took their dishes into the kitchen and cleared off any leftovers and placed their dish in the sink full of soapy water.

The older ones took turns washing or drying the dishes. The older one because she was tall put them away in the cupboards as I did as well.

We washed windows,mowed the lawn, watered the lawn, planted flowers etc

Sometimes the oldest one ( in junior high) would pick up my younger son at the daycare and walked home ( one block) to home where I just arrived after taking College courses.

We shopped at the grocery store all three of us getting the things on the list ( divided into three ) and walked home with a cart of groceries then one of them would walk the cart back ( one block.
We had picnics, bike riding, movies at the theater,Video Games,Popcorn night watching Superman etc And once a month I took them all out to a nice restaurant for a special dinner and too teach them about manners etc a good time.

Yes, but we don’t call them “chores” and there’s no schedule or reward. Instead, we always told my daughter that we’re a team and teams work together if they’re gonna live together. Everyone pitches in. Then, we just went about showing her how to do stuff around the house. Soon, she just started doing stuff to help out.

Emptying the dishwasher. Cleaning the glass coffee tables. Bringing dirty dishes into the kitchen/clearing the table. By age twelve, she was doing her own laundry.

I think it is essential kids learn these things, but you can’t force them or they’ll resent it and rebel. That’s what happened to my wife, now she’s a huge slob.

Growing up, my siblings and I had chores.
If I had kids, they’d be doing them until the end of time. Mwah haahaaaa

On each kid’s 13 birthday I bestowed the honor of washing their own clothes upon them. I showed them how to run the washing machine and dryer. And the FELT honored, and all growed up….for about 2 weeks!

No. I failed here. They learned how to clean the house, take care of a pet, cook and clean the kitchen. They never took out the trash or washed the car and I did not want them fooling with my washer/dryer.