What chores do your DCs do around the house?

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Increasingly thinking ours do fuck all very little. Have one of 10 and one of 7. Currently they might occasionally clear their plates away after a meal. They are also supposed to take their own clean laundry upstairs and put it away when it mounts up in laundry area. That's about it, though, and wondering what others do. Feel like I am some sort of slave most of the time and would love to get sense of what others do/expect from their offspring. Wary about getting them to do things like stack dishwasher as suspect they will just smash everything in clumsy fashion.

Clean and hoover inside of car (when needed)
Match socks, put away clean laundry
Feed/water dog
Feed fish
Put away cutlery from dishwasher (like you, I don't want broken things so I do the rest!)
Unpack lunch bag, gym kit, sleepover bags
Distribute loo roll to bathrooms
Help bring in shopping from the car
Sometimes put kitchen rubbish in outside bin
Make bed daily
Helps me fold sheets
Water pot plants in garden (sometimes)
Sweep kitchen floor (not regularly, but when needed)
Tidy her bedroom and playroom

4 & 2

Clear away toys
Help Hoover
Dust (v often not worth asking)
Take plates into kitchen after meal (plastic or melamine plates)
Carry cutlery and sauces to the table
Help set the table

When they were that age...
load dishwasher
unload dishwasher
set table / get everyone drinks before a meal
put own clothes away or have an ever-growing pile of clean laundry to step over as try to enter their rooms
clear place after themselves as finish a meal
make a cuppa for adults on request

Other things expected to do now and then 'as asked' but not daily:
get stuff out the tumble drier
put shopping away
collect the bins from round the house on bin day
dry up
wash up stuff that doesn't go in the dishwasher

Mine's 16. She has no chores to do.

Don't get me wrong, I've not raised a precious princess incapable of doing chores, I just do them myself. Always have, no reason behind it.

I'm with you OP. Mine do very little. I tried setting up a roster but can't blame them for not sticking to it when I don't in the first place. I just do stuff because it's easier and quicker. Not ideal I know.

Thanks everyone for sharing what goes on in your respective houses.

I think I am going to get tougher about mealtimes - so they can help laying the table and clearing away plates for starters. Love idea of them offering others a drink before a meal, but need to have realistic expectations at this stage.

Helping bring bags in from car/unload shopping/unpack own overnight bags will be next step.

Does anyone have DC who just chucks clothes in laundry basket even when sodding clean because it is less effort than putting back in own chest of drawers? If so - is there a cure for this?

Yes, my youngest does that (well, my eldest does sometimes as well). Sorry, don't know a cure, but I sort it before it gets to the washing machine and only wash things that either look dirty or smell.

I think they are realistic expectations to start with - they are things they can do from much younger than your dc's ages!

I wash far too many clean clothes. Grrrrrr!

Dd1&2 9&6 set and clear table and do drinks, ds 4 does his own clearing.

Dd 1 puts (throws in wardrobe) clean clothes, all put socks, pants, Pjs away, saying that we can't find what ds did with the last lot.

Tidy up after themselves, they've spent a wk tidying their bedroom as they seem to get distracted every single time they are asked to do it, becoming a massive battle but I'm not giving in.

Do small helpful things like getting me some nappies or clothing when the twins need changing.

DD 3 will generally help when asked to, but no specific chores just for her. She does these the most:

Helps set table
Puts away toys
Puts dirty clothes in laundry basket
Helps empty dishwasher
Feeds cats (not all the time, just when she's about at feeding time)
Makes bed
Cleans table

Not set chores, just expected to clear up after himself. Easy to do it myself and after school and homework he just needs to chill.

I have older kids (3 teenagers) and they just expected to clear up after themselves so tidying shoes and coats, putting laundry away, clearing plates, wiping don surfaces after use and keeping their rooms clean. If me or DH ask then they will put a wash on, put the dishwasher on, put the trash out, bring bins in ect. I also have a 4yo who is expected to clean up his toys after use and a 1yo who does nothing, obviously.

The older ones also help with the little one if I'm busy, so will make him a drink, get him dressed ect if needed.

I have two DSs (9 and 4) and two DDs (7 and 4). The older two empty dishwasher, put away their clothes and tidy bedroom. In return they get pocket money. They also occasionally help me put away shopping and water the indoor plants. For extra money, they spend an afternoon cleaning the cars together and polish the expensive platters and silverware. My DTs don't get pocket money but are expected to keep their bedrooms relatively tidy.

They are nearly 5.
They make their beds, help with dusting and hoovering, clear plates to the dishwasher and help to lay the table.
And the obvious things like putting their dirty clothes in the wash basket, coats and book bags on hooks etc.

My 7yo Gets his own breakfast, lays the table for dinner, takes his dishes into the kitchen, unpacks his bag after school, puts his lunch box and water bottle out for a wash and the freezer block back in the freezer. He's supposed to keep his room tidy but doesn't we're working on that one.