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chores

Posted: Apr 10, 2012

For those of you with tweens and teenagers, do they have daily chores? What types of chores do they do?

I'm reassessing my tween's chores, and I'm thinking I can add a few (insert evil laugh here).

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Mine is 14-has had chores for most of those. - Angie

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My daughter is 14 and we have moved 4 times since she was about 7 and each time we moved it was to a bigger place and her chores increase with each move. We are now buying this house and it is larger than I have ever lived in. Her dad pays her $40 a week to clean on Fridays after school. She is "supposed to" sweep, mop (we have mostly wood floors) dust, vacuum area rugs in living room and entryway, clean all toilets in 3 bathrooms...empty and fill dishwasher in kitchen. Granted this takes a little while, but she gets paid, I do alot of it daily and get nothing! LOL. IF she does extra, she gets more. We have a pool that has to be vacuumed about once a week too. She cleaned garage on spring break to get xtra money for our vacation coming up in June. Hope I didn't bore u, but u asked!

chores when I was about 10 - large family

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I had to do the dishes after dinner every day. There were 6 in my family, plus a cousin came to live with us to go to our school for a year. Yes, there was a dishwasher, but come on, feeding that many people took more dishes, pots and pans than one load would hold! I did not get an allowance, but I did get my butt beat if I did NOT do it!

My 8 yo has a list for her room. There are about 8-9 things to check off every night: Pick up the floor, hang up the bath towel, turn off lights, turn on alarm, turn on the CD player, move stuffed animals from bed to chair...you get the idea. She is a bit OCD so this takes the load off me and helps her relax when it's time for lights out. We are about to start a reward system to help motivate her to not whine while doing the list. Maybe tokens to earn time on her Nintendo for the coming weekend.

I think my job as a parent is to prepare her to be an adult. IMHO, personal responsibility is the core foundation to teach.

Not scheduled chores, but - Ayn

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We've never been very successful at sticking to a schedule of chores for our kids, but we have always expected them to be contributing members of the family, to do certain things themselves (hang up towels, clean their own rooms, feed their own pets, fold their own clothes, etc) and expect them to do whatever chores we ask them to do when we ask them to do it. And there is no comparing between each other allowed -- I may ask one to do something one day, someone else to do 2 things another day, two of them together to do something else a 3rd day. It is whoever is around/available and able to do what needs done at the time. OR whoever is in the dog house at any given time :-)

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