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[quote=Anonymous]Honestly, the children should have chores.  Not chores that require you to chase around after them, but they could take turns setting and clearing the table and putting dishes in dishwasher and washing left over dishes (as a result of doing these chores from 3rd grade onward, I can pack a dishwasher like nobody's business and everything still gets clean!)

Also, on weekends they should pick up their rooms.  My sibling and I vacuumed and dusted the house every single weekend - we each had a floor and that rotated every Saturday.  My mother did bathrooms and cleaned the kitchen oven, fridge as needed, washed the kitchen floor, etc.  But then again, my mother was a SAH so we didn't have 100 things to do on the weekends like kids do now.  So perhaps that wouldn't work now, but find something that does work.

Honestly, every child should be picking up their own room and vacuuming.  Every child should be taught how to vacuum and dust (yes, that includes PICKING UP THE OBJECTS and dusting or vacuuming under them!) so they know how to do this as an adult - and it starts now.

Make a caper chart, each child has 1 job a day, they do it for the week and then on Sundays the jobs change for the new week.  Set table, clear table, load dishwasher, take trash out to the barrel.  There, that's 4 jobs - do you have 4 kids?  Set and clear table can be one job for one person, then loading dishwasher is for other person.  If you only have 2 kids, this can rotate daily or weekly - their choice.  If you have more than 2 kids then it's easier to keep jobs for one week so nobody is confused about whose job it is.

(putting dishes away from dishwasher requires you are tall enough to do it so that usually ends up being tall adults)[/quote]

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