Doing chores is a tradition in many families. Chores help kids learn responsibility, and sharing chores gives you help around the house. Not sure your kids will go for it? Take heart! There are ...

Every family handles chores differently. Some parents hold off to “let kids be kids,” with the idea that children will eventually learn how to do laundry and clean dishes and do all the adult ...

But you're doing your child a disservice by not getting them involved. Even toddlers can help tidy a room, for example, while older kids can make a sandwich for their lunch box. Chores for ...

Getting children to do chores is difficult no matter how many kids you have unless you are raising them in an Indigenous community in Mexico where kids as young as 1 assist at home and by ages 6 ...

Parents often struggle with how to best navigate chores with their children. For some families, allowing their child to not engage in family chores or to keep a messy room is acceptable.

Although he has published two scientific studies of the ability of children to do chores, he and his wife, also a pediatrician, never insisted on their own kids doing them. “You might think for ...

“Families have to decide whether they want to pay children or give some kind of incentive for doing chores. I think sometimes it can be helpful, but sometimes that can backfire. If you ...