When did your offspring learn to...

[rosemole]

Close cupboard doors
Close drawers
Put lids back on jars/bottles/toothpaste tube
Tidy up without being asked
Leave the loo so it's presentable for the next person to use
Etc.?

Please don't tell me yours are adults and they still don't do those things!

Mine has just turned 5 and except for needing to be reminded to tidy up he does all those things without being asked.

DS is also 5 and does everything - including tidying up without being asked. He's a bit of a neat freak though 😂

Age 5 DS
Will close doors and drawers after use
Puts down toilet seat, flushes and turns light off when done

Tidying up we do together and I direct him as to what goes where

Chew with their mouth closed?

Mine did all that at 5 too … he’s 7 now and lost all ability to do any of it without a reminder!!

Ah, the naivety of the 5 years olds parents

Yup, 5 year old is pretty good at that
1 year old is excellent at opening and slamming cupboard doors shut.

However I'm pretty sure as a teenager my younger brother regressed and was hopeless at all of them.

What? You're supposed to do these things?

I feel like 5 year olds are good at this. 13 years plus not so much! Obviously there's always exceptions.

Yup I think I should have clarified this! Mine are not 5 and definitely know how to do these things, they just choose not to/forget/can't be bothered/don't see the point/importance.

I'm fed up of being a total nag hag.

This!

Rarely have to tell DS7 to do anything except the cupboards, DS9 is sooooo lazy at the moment though!!!

tell us more!

Yep, super helpful at chores and tidying from 5, lose all ability between about 12-19

Yeah my two year old manages the first three - I can’t see it lasting!

Toddler DD was amazing at this. The teen version, significantly less so. She does generally put food back in the fridge after use but not if she's in a rush, there's someone else in the kitchen or a million other reasons. She was such a helpful little dot.
Almost teen DS has always been useless so as least there's no surprise or disappointment about his continuing uselessness. Actually, he gets a lot less useless about 10 mins after he's due to have gone to bed when, to delay bedtime further, he will suddenly start tidying things up. So there is increased frustration with him as I know he can actually see it if he bothers.
The amount of toilet roll insides in their bathroom is incredible and the increased precision with which they must have to now place each additonal toilet roll insider on the existing pile must be remarkable. It may be on display in the Tate Modern soon. Otherwise, you may see a headline about a child being injured by a collapsing stack of toilet roll inners.

Send them back to clean it every single time.

Could do it at 5..,, but not at 14.

@DorothyStorm I do. It's exhausting

Mine are 7 and 9 and I nag about these things daily (moreso the 9 year old!)

I haven't mastered tidying up yet and I have kids of my own!

I'll ask my mother in law because DH (aged 50) still frequently forgets/neglects!

Can do it and will do it entirely seperate things in my experience.

DC1 could do all the above by 14 months

DC2 was much more advanced; even gave me a dirty look in the delivery room when I didn't put the baby wipes straight back in the bag.

DC3 incredibly lazy and left a cupboard door open aged 5yrs 6 months. And failed to put the lid back on the toothpaste. On the same day! I don't know where I went wrong.

My 4 year old is incredibly dutiful and helpful with everything like this.

I think he gets it from his dad as I was always useless at things like this. It's taken years of really trying as an adult to do it bit even so, I still find a drawer or cupboard door open sometimes and wonder how I missed it.