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[quote=Anonymous]I definitely still packed my kids’s lunches back then, but they’re perfectly capable of doing it now in HS, they can cook and do their own laundry and are very independent. There’s a lot of what should your kid do, but think of it in the context of your household. Families with pets may have kids with different chores than others. For me, cleaning up after yourself is a more important habit to develop than making your own lunches. So at that age my big push was making sure that when they came home from school they put their empty lunchbox containers in the dishwasher and hung up their lunchboxes on the hooks we have, shoes in the bench, backpacks away. I wanted them to be responsible for remembering their own things out of the house so they had their own bags to bring to the pool from a very young age, they had to carry their own towels, goggles, snacks. They lost goggles a few times but then they got into the habits of putting them back in place.

All that to say—there’s no list of what every kid should do at every age, but think of it as what you think is important for your family at the time and make sure they do have some chores and expectations, but the ones they have should work for you. If you like making lunches and want to make sure it’s well balanced and healthy, then keep going. [/quote]

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