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 ...

It's true: Chores are good for kids. "Helping with chores contributes to a child's self-esteem," says Kelley Yost Abrams, Ph.D. in developmental psychology and a member of the BabyCenter Medical ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

And other studies found that children who do regular chores have higher interpersonal skills and greater ability to take on responsibility, as well as increased empathy. Doing household chores is ...

They simply had never been taught, many of them having the privilege of their parents doing all the chores for them. I made up my mind, in those nine years of teaching, that my children wouldn’t ...

So, a girl may want to do an outside chore [and] a boy might like washing dishes. So we’re really looking at who is your ...

but I care a lot more about raising kids than I do raising vegetables,” Williams quips. Giving children chores means mistakes will happen, and the task may not get done right every time ...