How much time does your HS kid. spend on chores each day?
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Anonymous
| DD has been really busy with school work and activities and is having trouble fitting in chores. How much do you or would you excuse? |
Anonymous
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DD with very busy schedule only has to unload dishwasher, which is 15 minutes. Also maybe a vacuum on the weekend. just enough to make her feel that she still had to contribute to her home.
Older DD who did little homework and had lower motivation- we made her get a part-time job. |
Anonymous
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5-10 minutes
Things like- Unload dishwasher Take out trash Litter box “Five minute pickup” - something I request - everyone pick up crap in common areas, bring cups and such out of bedrooms I have two kids, they share these things, really doesn’t amount to much work. I have one that spends maybe 15 minutes tidying room once per week. The other lives much messier. |
Anonymous
| My teen keeps her room clean and the bathroom tidy. She does her own laundry. I don’t need her to do household chores. She is stressed with school and has very little extra time. |
Anonymous
| Not much for 2 busy teens - unload dishwasher and dog care daily, putting away laundry and picking up rooms on weekends, |
Anonymous
| DD doesn't have assigned chores except to make her bed each morning. It's more that I ask her to do things as they come up. |
Anonymous
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My high schoolers have minimal chores:
One unloads top of dishwasher, the other the bottom Responsible for their own laundry Pick up their rooms every other week so that our cleaning lady can clean their room |
Anonymous
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It's not per day, it's more per week. Two kids who take turns unloading the dishwasher. They do their own laundry. On the weekends they take turns wiping down their bathroom. Occasionally 5-10 minute tidy of the common area.
But our house isn't the super clean type; so this is enough for us. |
Anonymous
| We don’t have assigned chores. I ask them to do things as needed when they are home and everyone pitches in when they can. One of my kids was really busy yesterday with sports didn’t do anything. The other was home most of the evening and unloaded the dishwasher, took care of the dog, brought in the garbage cans. It could be the opposite a different night. |
Anonymous
| Similar to PP. He unloads the dishwasher as needed, walks dog when asked (one or two times a week), helps with laundry, and does other tasks as requested but all told it’s probably no more that 10 min on a typical day. Over the summer there was a little more (prepping a dinner a week, occasionally mowing the lawn) |
Anonymous
| Not much. Help clean up after dinner if he’s home and ate with us (we all do it together). Clean up his room and bathroom before the house cleaners arrive. Do short errands for me if he will be out anyway and going by the place I need to go (I.e., drop off UPS store package on the way to gf’s house). Pretty minimal. Oh, he does his own laundry too. |
Anonymous
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Our situation is much like the PPs, my kids have minimal chores and nothing really "assigned". It's more ad hoc, "please unload the dishwasher," "please feed the dogs".
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Anonymous
This |
Anonymous
| During the week mine only empties the dishwasher which we run only every other day. She is supposed to also keep her own crap put away and her room clean, but in reality that only happens on the weekends when I force everyone (husband and two kids) to remove their stuff from the common areas and clean their rooms. It is an uphill battle with all three of them, God help me. |
Anonymous
| None really. Clean up room. On weekends helps with laundry and other things. No Tim. |