Do you require your children to do chores? Should you? Truth be told, it’s often a lot easier to do the work ourselves – especially when trying to manage the assignments we give our kids becomes a ...

Chores: the one parenting topic on which all the experts actually agree. Kids should be doing them. Kids: universal oath that said chores must be avoided at all costs, whined about excessively, ...

It would happen every time. I'd make what to me seemed like a reasonable request, "Please clean your room," and my three boys would dissolve into a puddle on the floor as if I had just crushed all ...

Every January, my website gets a spike in traffic from parents looking for ways to revamp their children’s chore assignments. They are resolved to be more intentional in the New Year about ...

My 13-year-old daughter vacuumed last night, right after she helped to load the dishwasher with the dinner dishes. She was slow. Geez Louise, was she slow. She complained about it. Declared that "none ...

When I was growing up in the '80s, it was rare to meet a child who didn't have a list of household chores he was expected to complete on a daily basis. My own chore list included picking my dirty ...

Our 3 kids do household chores and we don't pay them allowance for it. This system is teaching them about responsibility and ...

Dear Kid Whisperer, After reading your column, my husband and I realized that our 8-year-old was not doing enough chores. She ...

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