Here are some age-appropriate chores you can give your toddler, plus other ways to teach your tot how to be responsible.

A psychologist says chores help teach kids responsibility and time management Age-appropriate tasks like cleaning up or mowing the lawn can build life skills Paying kids for chores is a personal ...

A week or so ago I offered my son $2 to shovel the front steps. (We have a lot of them.) It was late afternoon and I was staring down another hour of work, walking the dog and making dinner. Not only ...

Dr. Erica Lee, a psychologist at Boston Children's Hospital, shares advice for parents about having kids pitch in around the ...

I began this post as a response to Daniel Lancy's discussion of chores from an anthropological perspective. I don't believe he mentions it, but my reading of the literature suggests that among many ...

Orlando, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - Chores. Nobody likes them, young or old! According to a survey, only around 28 percent of parents report making their children regularly do chores, compared to 82 ...

Some were associated with allowance, others were simply mandatory. For many kids, they were often an intrusion on other more important things we could have been doing. As a parent, I’m sure you’ve ...

Let’s face it, most of us don’t like doing chores, so it’s not surprising that children often resist them. Nagging is usually not constructive, and sometimes you can try every trick in the book to no ...

Getting kids to do their household chores is a challenge that crosses cultures and the solutions appear just as varied. According to the BBC, Spain's parliament is considering a law that would require ...

Ask someone who grew up in the 1960s about childhood chores and they will not start with "unloading the dishwasher." Their ...