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[quote=Anonymous]Mine doesn't have an actual chore list, but is expected to pick up after herself, unload the dishwasher when needed, keep her bathroom tidy and wiped down, clean up spills, return the kitchen to order after cooking, and generally not contribute to household squalor. She also does her own laundry.

Given her usual school and extracurricular workload, we don't really ask her to do anything more than we (working parents) do on a daily basis. We have a housekeeping service do the big cleaning jobs every two weeks, and we all pitch in to keep things to a reasonable level of cleanliness and order in between.

During the pandemic, though, we haven't had our regular housekeeping service, so we've taken the opportunity to teach her how to do the bigger tasks that we usually outsource, now that she's truly old enough to do them properly without heavy oversight. We've all taken turns doing things like vacuuming/mopping, dusting, polishing furniture, deep-cleaning kitchen and bathrooms, etc.

So even if we do eventually go back to twice-monthly housekeeping, I'll feel comfortable that she at least knows how to do those things whenever she lives on her own. [/quote]

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