What does your teen/s do to help?
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What does your teen/s do to help?
| Tue, 10-30-2007 - 1:56pm |
Hi Everyone,
New here, and I'm hoping to get some ideas of what your teen/s are doing to help out around the house.

Ever since my two girls were little, they've been involved in maintaining our home. When they were real little, they had a chore chart, which didn't really work out so well, so then I started making each their own list each week.
When they got to be young teens, I made a list of what chores needed to be done each Sat morning - that was cleaning day (I did pick up during the week) - and give it to them. They'd divvie up the list of chores and methodically get them all done so they could go do whatever they wanted to do for the day. That was the rule: Get the chores done first and then you get to do what you want to do (work before play, as my mom used to say!). It worked out very well.
Nowadays, at 18 and nearly 20, it's just a given that if they see something that needs to be done, they should do it. For instance, unload the dishwasher, clear the sink, tidy up the kitchen, scrub the tub, etc. They each do their own laundry after mine is done. If they choose not to fold it, that's their problem, not mine. Oh - and they will give the dogs a bath if I ask them. And dd20 is hardly every home now that she's a college student so much isn't expected of her.
I don't allow anyone else to do the floors as I am very picky about that and I love vacuuming...I don't know why.
Hi Joanna,
I'm new here too, but I thought I'd reply.
DD is 17.
My 2 boys have always been involved with household chores.
My son just turned 14 this month.
Ramona Mom to 2 great kids and wife to one wonderful hubby since 1990!
My DSS (15) has lived with us since he was 10. Ever since the day he moved in he has had chores. We do not give allowance. One, because we believe that if he is going to be part of our family, then he should help out and Two, simply because we just cant afford it. His chores consist of : Cleaning his bathroom 2x per week (boys are messy and this is a shared bathroom with our guests) 3x per week he does the dinner dishes (which lately he had been relieved of because we have been doing allot of "make yourself dinner") he takes out the trash, cleans his room 1x per week (which consists of dusting changing sheets vacuuming and general pick up) and he does his own laundry (more so because he couldn't get his dirty clothes into the laundry room and I got tired of hearing "i have no clean clothes"). I built up these chores as he has gotten older it started with only one or two and then progressed from there.