Which chores to your children do?

[TheDullWitch]

I m minded to start this after finding myself cleaning my almost 12yr-old's shoes. My dh thought it was appalling he wasn t doing it himself. But, as with all these things, you get sick of nagging so you do it yourself.

So quick summary of ages of children and chores they have to do.

Am thinking of making beds every day, setting table, emptying dish washer, feeding animals to doing some shopping and doing their own washing etc.

Oh mistake in bloody subject line. DOH! Sorry.

Bugger all. But thats all going to change soon,as I am sick of being skivvy.

DS's agesd 7 and 5

make their own beds every day
set the table
clear their dishes away
tidy their own toys away
help out with sorting out washing to be put away (they join in, not asked to do this)

if they do this they get a reward star, if they don't they don't

at the end of the week stars = £ which they can then choose how they spend, either all at once or save up for something bigger

p.s. I do their shoes couldn't take the black shoe polish being everywhere

oh and have supervised DS1 ironing and they both join in cooking too

kids aged 9
7
5

int eh morning have to tidy tooms, make bed, get self dressed and pack school bag( i do packed lunches)

afert shool empty bags

meals _ lay table clear plates stack dishwasher

generalyl - tidy rooms before bed and in morning, put washign in bin, take up folded washing to the correct bedrooms( and the odler ones put it away). get kit out for pe/extra curric and put away

ds1 and 2 are also dab hands at tidying up the sofa/play area and ponce abotu arranging cushions.

allthis is expetected -a nything beyond that gets mentined in dispateches.

( oh obv haev to empty crap out of liunchboxes too)

Yep, that afterschool lunchbox scraping is the most soul destroying job ever.

then scrape them and say "what was wrong wiht htat carrot"

oh mine help me wiht the dishwasher too
dont let em do it alone afetr hearing abotu that kid who impaled himself o a breaknife and died

Some fruit in our house travels back and forth to school for 5 days without being eaten.

DSs aged 12 and 14:

Feed cat if they're first up
Put washing in laundry bin
Tidy rooms
Bit of hoovering/cleaning
Empty bathroom bins
Sort recycling
Lay table
Go to papershop alone
Come with me to supermarket sometimes when I walk down so they can help carry bags home
They cook sometimes - with help

They don't empty dishwasher but they do put their own plates in.
They don't clean shoes except for scraping mud off rugby boots.

They do quite a bit for my mum - mow her (large) lawn, clear gutters, put wheelie bins out, dig garden etc.

My 20 month old sets the table every evening .

have just been under both beds (cabinet type) and thier idea of tidying toys is not mine

mine - everything sorted by subject/theme

theirs - everything in one pile

ah well they'll learn