5 Chores You Can Assign to Your Kids at Home

You can never get enough help around the house, so when your kids are old enough, feel free to allow them to give you a hand every now and then.

This doesn’t have to be anything too strenuous. For starters, they can assist with washing the dishes, or putting them in the dishwasher.

Tidying up the room and several other simple tasks will be of great help to you, and it will teach them early on, about their responsibilities.

Let’s see what are some of the easy chores your little ones can help out with.

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Make the Bed

Even if you only have one child, it still means you need to make two beds, which takes up loads of time from other chores and duties.

Therefore, ask your bundle of joy to make their own bed every morning before going to school. Aside from simply making the bed, they should also change their sheets on their own.

Add folding and putting away clothes and organizing their Tupperware, toys and books to the list.

That way, they’ll develop a good habit of always keeping their room tidy before they head out and have a perfectly clean environment to come back to and study.

Do the Dishes

Even when they’re only 3 years old, your children can start helping out around the kitchen. At first, you don’t have to hand them over the glassware and sharp utensils but stick to plastic dishes you usually use.

Be it bowls, trays or boxes to store food, those can not harm your kid, nor could they break them in case they drop them.

Once they’re a bit older, you can trust them with washing their own dishes. Make the policy of everyone cleaning up after themselves.

All they can do is rinse the dishes and put them in the dishwasher. For those who do not have a dishwasher, you can fill the washing bowl with lukewarm water and detergent and have it ready for everyone to wash the dishes after themselves.

Help Around Garden

Kids love to spend time outdoors, but most of all they want to feel adult. That’s why you can offer them a little fun while actually allowing them to help out and take some load off your shoulders.

If you’ve been attending to your garden, you can trust the garden watering to them. Are they big enough to hold a bucket of water?

If so, they can easily water the plants and allow you to deal with more complex gardening chores.

Once they’re big enough to handle the lawnmower, feel free to let them mow the lawn.

Helping you with pulling the weeds will be great as you’ll be done with gardening chores much faster when there’s at least two of you doing the work.

Feeding pets

Are your kids persistent in asking for a pet? Parents usually manage to avoid bringing the new member of the family to the house by saying that the pet will be allowed only if the kids will look after it and feed it.

That’s actually a great idea, that you should make a stick. Whether you already have a pet or your kids want you to give them one, you should have the little ones look after them.

Children can get disinterested quickly, but if you keep reminding them why the pet was so important to them, they’ll continue to look after it.

Finally, if they refuse to do it, you could always threaten to give the pet to someone else and see if they care enough to keep the little one or your kids genuinely don’t care about the furry creature anymore.

Vacuuming

Cleaning the house is always the biggest chore of all. Whether you’re dusting, vacuuming, sweeping or scrubbing, somehow it seems like you can start all over once you’re finally done with the last chore.

Therefore, to make the cleaning process more convenient, you can trust vacuuming to your little ones.

Middle-school children are old enough to know how to use the vacuum cleaner and also responsible enough to know how to avoid knocking something down and breaking it.

So, you can have peace of mind and know that they won’t be in any danger while vacuuming.

To not put too much burned on them, you can start by allowing them to vacuum their own room, and gradually add another room to the list after some time.

Final thoughts

You may think that your children are too little to help out, but you need to stop being overprotective as much.

If they’re old enough to eat by themselves and put on the clothes on their own, they can certainly help around the house from time to time.

Therefore, feel free to trust them with small duties at first and slowly expand the area they can handle.

Once they get a hang of making the bed and tidying up the room, they’ll quickly become ready to tackle some bigger chores.

Vacuuming, watering garden, mopping, sweeping, and washing the dishes are just some of the small chores they can deal with so that you can have more time to dedicate to yourself and your family.

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A mother and lover of all things practical. My blog covers about motherhood by exploring all areas of life. Our tips and tricks help the large community to do more in less time so they can spend time enjoying happy, healthy families.