chores – Kveller

Cute curly toddler girl in a colorful dress washing dishes, cleaning with a sponge and playing with foam in the sink in a beautiful sunny white kitchen with a garden view window in a modern home

As my daughter was mopping the floor recently, she made a reference to Annie (as in the redheaded orphan) and Cinderella. Those are the characters her musical theatre summer camp reflected back to… her about young girls who do chores. This struck me as a privileged irony: when a significant amount of money is spent for children to attend a musical theatre summer camp so they can dress up like orphans and sing “It’s a Hard Knock Life.” Sometimes, that privileged irony comes back to bite us in… >> Read More

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How to Stop the Chore War & Get Kids to Love (or Tolerate) Cleaning

Bethany Babchik

Son Helping Father To Wash Dishes In Kitchen Sink

Is getting your kids on board to do their chores a struggle? Do you fight with them to complete simple tasks, which causes you to think, “maybe I should have just done it myself in the first… place?!” Do you wonder why the process of children doing chores is so difficult? In my experience, as both a seasoned educator and a mom of two kids, don't always know what is expected of them. But it’s my belief that kids do want to help. They want to be grown up and do “big kid… >> Read More

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Study: If You Make Your Kids Do Chores, They’ll Be Successful Adults

Joanna C. Valente

Smiling caucasian girl helping in kitchen taking plates out of dish washing machine, casual lifestyle photo series in real life interior

Nagging your kids to do chores actually has a scientific benefit, it's been confirmed. This means getting your kids to clean up their room and (gasp) do the dishes isn't just you being the Evil Mom… Witch, it's just you trying to make your kids more responsible, successful adults--according to scientists from Pennsylvania State University and Duke University. The researchers Pennsylvania State University and Duke University followed 700 children from all over the US between kindergarten and age 25. What they found isn't surprising, but it totally validates every mom ever whose tried to make her… >> Read More

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It’s Pretty Terrible That Girls Spend 40% More Time on Chores Than Boys Do

Joanna C. Valente

Apparently, girls spend 40% more time than boys doing household chores, according to a new UNICEF report. That's a dismal statistic to be faced with on a Friday afternoon. It's also not exactly… surprising. According to the report, girls between the ages of 5 and 14 spend 160 million more hours cooking, cleaning the house, taking care of family members, and collecting water and firewood--and this is across the globe. The chores start pretty young too, as girls ages 5 and 9 spend 30% more time, which translates to… >> Read More

Dads

Hilarious Dad Uses ‘Pokemon Go’ to Persuade His Kids to Do Chores

Joanna C. Valente

Getting your kid to do chores is worse than pulling teeth sometimes. They will find any excuse as to why they absolutely cannot pick up their toys ("But mommmmm, I'm trying to catch a Pokemon/my neck… hurts/Dad said I don't have to."). This is why one genius dad is using the popularity of Pokemon Go to get his kids to put away their clothes. Seth King is a dad who decided to do something creative about getting his kids to do their chores. So, he created a new game for his kids… >> Read More

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