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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Op - kids are 10 years old and younger. They just don’t care.[b] I have told them to do chores and they do it for a week then quit[/b]. They don’t care if they have clean clothes or clean dishes. They don’t care if the house is a mess. I care so I clean and make food.

I don’t actually like much food - I would prefer to never cook another meal for the rest of my life.[/quote]

Build a chore schedule and assign each kid a role. Each kid gets a different role each week, e.g., one person is in charge of decluttering the common spaces, the other in charge of emptying trash cans, one in charge of feeding the cat/dog.  Kids alternate each night being the "dinner person" whose responsibility it is to set the table, help put dishes in dishwasher and clean kitchen.  ES kids are capable of changing sheets on a bed, gathering up dirty clothes, etc.

There is no screen/fun time until chores are done.  Of course they will quit if there is no consequence/incentive.  Make it a general 30 minutes each day of "chore time".  Put on some fun music and everyone does it.   ES age kids are not too young to learn that the family is a system, everyone participates in the orderly functioning of the household and that mom is the manager, not the indentured servant.  
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