Chores for a 6 year old?

[Catsandcannedbeans]

DD turns 6 next week and is requesting a pocket money raise. She currently gets £1 per week and wants £3 (she’s not getting three, but I admire her tenacity with it). This means she needs some more chores. She currently makes her bed, feeds the cat, brushes the cat, and when she comes to wake me up brings me a water. I am gonna get her brother to feed and brush the cat as he doesn’t have any at the moment, so he will do those two to start. I’m just stuck with what else to give her. I don’t mind her not being good at them by the way, it’s more about her doing it and getting in a routine. I was thinking maybe set the table? When I was her age my parents had us basically doing everything, but I don’t really want to be like that, she has the rest of her life to clean lol.

My 6 year old dusts his room (he loves spraying the polish…), puts away his clean underwear (can’t trust him to put away anything else), helps his sister set and clear the table, tidies the play room when he’s finished, makes his bed and has to keep his room tidy.

Hahaha. I agree it's not amazing parenting. I'd say it's lazy parenting. And I am a proudly lazy parent.

Too lazy do chores myself, I don't want to do them either, I'd much rather engage with my kids and play with them. So we make it fun and do it together. Anything can be a game if you make it so.

E.g. "Let's go have a sock fight! Oh wait, we'll need to pair the socks first...." Job done.

But I genuinely have no idea how other parents get chores done while looking after young kids - is amazing parenting sending the kids down the mines so you can actually do the chores without a small child hanging off your leg?