Praise, ice-cream and starting young: how to get kids to help around the house | Veronica Heritage-Gorrie

There’s an art to getting children to chip in with the chores. Here are some tactics that will set them (and you) up for life

  • Sharing the Load is a column about parenting children of all ages

How do I get my children to do chores?

Household chores can be the pits on any given day, but throw children into the mix and the day-to-day grind can sometimes be overwhelming. Gone are the days when chores were gendered – the boys take the rubbish out and the girls do the dishes. That didn’t fly in my household: as a single parent and a shift worker, I needed all hands on deck.

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