To ask if anyone has a good way of teaching children how to change their duvet cover?

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And any other tips for preteen household chores? I need to get them to do more.

Standing on the bed would work.

Yep, this. It's easy with a single duvet. My (very short) dd was able to do this by around the age of 8/9.

Came in to say this. I worked in a German hotel in Uni and was taught this. When I came home, I taught my mum and she taught the whole town!!! There is now a town in the West of Ireland where everyone changes their duvet covers like this😂

How were they doing it before

I'm really curious, for anyone that doesn't do it this way, how do you do it?

The "burrito" method is fun and fairly easy - there should be a YouTube video showing it. You roll up the duvet and cover and when you unroll it, it's magically inside the cover.

Mine stood on the bed but also helped each other. They are 3 years apart. As for other chores, table setting and clearing the table is daily, putting things into the dishwasher etc and no one leaves the kitchen until everything is in the dishwasher, hand washed, dried and put away. Children wipe placemats/table and the other child dries them. Even if they aren't doing, they are learning what needs to be done.

I use the method advised here and I wash and store duvet covers inside out .

If you have two or more kids, they could do the job in pairs: one holds the corners while the other pulls the duvet on.

I grab the top corner of the duvet, slide it inside the cover until it gets to the corresponding corner, grab hold of the cover and duvet corner and then repeat on the other corner, then give it a good shake. It's how I've always done it and it takes me less than a minute. I've never managed to do the inside out method as easily, I suppose it's what you get used to.

Don't teach them. Let them learn.

Set changing the duvet as a race (either against the clock or each other) and get them aiming for PBs ...in any way they can devise.

OP how old are the kids? Before I was tall enough to shake it out properly on my own, me and my sister did ours together - same method, inside out and hold corners but the other one then pulls the cover and puts the other end of the duvet in the corners, does it up, then each hold the corners of one end and shake it

You can also get clips to hold the corners in place

I used to store their bed covers in a pillow Case so each child knew their own I think this helps them and definitely turn the duvet cover inside out.

They come off inside out anyway. But if it is wrong way round get the child to turn it. They are tricky to do for shorter kids.

I don't mean to sound snippy but when you say 'drowning in jobs' can you just sack some off? I never experienced this feeling of overwhelm but I'm not that arsed about appearances. I did expect the kids to pitch in though, and we split the housework.

I do the inside out way now but I learned/figured out how to change a duvet age 9 at boarding school. Lots of us used to lay it out on the floor and climb inside😂 and/or we'd get a friend or two to hold the corners.

It wasn't quick but it was quite fun.

my way is
lie the duvet cover on bed, put corner of duvet in and put a clothes peg on it, repeat for other corners, do the poppers up then shake - takes 2 mins to do a king size duvet

I'm a single parent and it's just all too much now and again. 99 % of the time it's just fine but occasionally I just get really fed up of everything falling on me.