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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How To Raise an Adult (great read by the way!) has a good list for this:

Ages 4-5:

-Know her full name, address, and phone number
-Know how to make an emergency call. 
-Perform simple cleaning chores - dusting, clearing the table
-Feed pets
-Identify monetary denomination and understand the concept of money
-Brush teeth, comb hair, wash face completely independently
-Help with basic laundry chores like putting away clothes and bringing dirty clothes to laundry area.
-Choose her own clothes.

And in case you're behind, here's 2-3:
-Put his toys away
-Dress himself
-Put dirty clothes in hamper
-Clear plate
-Assist in setting the table
-Brush teeth and wash face with assistance[/quote]

Lol, my 6 year old knows HOW to do all these things, but many of them are hard to get her to do anyway. You quickly segue from teaching them how to dress themselves to reminding them 6 times a day to please put the dirty clothes IN the hamper and not on the bathroom floor, in the hallway, under their sheets, etc.

Sometimes it's random what they are motivated to do. My kid won't put toys away to save her life, it is a constant battle. But she's been making her own bed since she was 3 and I don't think I even taught her how -- she just started doing it. Same with setting the table -- she loves it. Yet I'll remind her to clear a small plastic bowl from the table after a snack and you'd think I asked her to lift thousand pound stone tablets across the ocean.[/quote]

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