For complete printable lists of chores your tweens can do on their own (and another list on chores they can do with help!), click on the links below!
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If you want more chores, efficiency, and organization help, check out the podcast episodes listed here.
In teaching children to become diligent workers, there is much training involved. However, there comes a point in the teaching of each new task where a job becomes that child’s job. The child has been taught, and he is ready to take the diligence to the next level—responsibility.
Throughout the chore-training process, there are times in which intense training is needed to ensure that the child knows how to do the tasks that are going to be assigned. This involves a lot of working with Mom or Dad. Their modeling, instruction, patience, and encouragement will go a long way in teaching the child to complete the task fully.
For complete printable lists of chores your elementary child can do on his own (and another list on chores he can do with help!), click on the links below!
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If you want more chores, efficiency, and organization help, check out the podcast episodes listed here.
One thing that makes it much easier for children to learn chores and household upkeep is for the children to work with you on developing systems. We as moms have a tendency to create the systems that we like in freezers, refrigerators, pantries, toy shelves, bookcases, kitchen cupboards, and more. And then when somebody comes in to do a chore or unload groceries or put something away, it is not done correctly. And we wonder why people keep messing up our systems!
For complete printable lists of chores your kindergartener can do on his own (and another list on chores he can do with help!), click on the links below!
Click here for colorful, printable chore lists for toddlers through tweens.
If you want more chores, efficiency, and organization help, check out the podcast episodes listed here.
This post is a continuation of the “Age Appropriate Chores Series”. You can read previous posts by clicking here.
Speaking of a sense of accomplishment and pride, we found it much more effective to actually give a child a certain chore, certain area, a certain jurisdiction rather than passing out chores each day, using a job jar, etc. What I mean by this is that we taught a child to do a chore completely, and that naturally became that child’s job.
