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[quote=Anonymous]We keep is easy to manage and it seems to work. We have an 12 yr DD and 15 yr DS. Both kids do their own laundry.  They alternate months for kitchen duty. That means loading and unloading the dishwasher and cleaning up after meals. It seems like a lot but they get an entire month off in between. Parents help also but that’s a bonus and it’s the kids’ responsibility. We used to alternate days or weeks, but this is much easier to remember, fewer arguments, etc.

We all pitch in a few minutes before the cleaners come. If someone brings in groceries, people need to stop what they’re doing. We don’t allow any food upstairs so I don’t bother them much about clean rooms. They pick up every two weeks so it never gets too out of control. I have decided that I am not fighting the battle of folded clothes. They wear clean clothes and that works for me. Every two weeks, the kids fold their clothes but I will admit that their clothes live in a hamper in between that. Oh well.

Beyond that, we don’t ask for much (and to be fair, outsourcing helps how much any of us have to do).

I don’t get as much resistance as I used to have myself as a kid. We took away phones/screens early on when we started setting expectations and now it’s mostly on autopilot. Our biggest issue is actually the kid who is on the off-month leaving things out in the kitchen because they know it’s not their month to clean up, lol.

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