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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] OP, your kids do chores. Mine do too!

It's a good thing. However, [b]I don't drag my kids away from family fun to handwash dishes[/b]. In our house, we all have daily tasks (like make bed, laundry if old enough, empty/fill dishwasher) and we have times when we all divvy up tasks like vaccuming and bathroom cleaning. So for us, the whole family takes part in chores that help our household run smoothly.

This is regardless of gender-my boys do laundry too and my girls do yardwork too.

My feeling is, I want the kids to learn the tasks needed to manage a home, so when they have one, it's well managed. [/quote]

There’s a huge difference between doing chores (to help, to contribute, to learn, to build a work ethic) and being continually interrupted during family gatherings to go do chores.

With that said, my family splits chores (hosts and guests alike) by age/temperament.  Whoever feeds infants/toddlers during the meal will bus and wipe the table.  Preteens/teens that like little kids (and volunteer!) clean infants/toddlers, redress and either change diapers or hand them over to parents for diaper change.  Anyone who cooked can relax, all others wash, rinse, dry and put away dishes.  We go from meal to clean kitchen, dining room and kids in under 20 minutes.  None of us would ever think of filling up a dishwasher because it wouldn’t all fit, nor would we put one or two kids in charge of doing all the dishes![/quote]

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