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My 5 year old daughter loves to help me clean, my son (4) doesn’t lol maybe it’s a boy thing? He cries anytime I make him to anything🙂↕️
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My 4 year old has a so called Job at the end of the day after dinner she has to vacuum the rug at the table and pick up the trash in the house that they all layed around she actually gets excited but I don’t reward her she just knows to do it and she’s the one that asked if she could have a “job “
@Chelsey Mirabel i do kinda do options. I'll say something like "its time to clean up the living room if you want your game tonight, do you want daddy to help you or do it on your own?" Or ill make it a game by setting a timer and say "let's see if we can clean the living room before the timer is up!" He loves helping if we're already doing something like laundry or making dinner, but for some reason trying to teach him to be responsible for his messes is impossible 😩 he's always losing toys and i tell him over and over if he put them away before moving on to another toy he wouldn't lose his things. I like to give a lot of different choices in opportunities throughout their day on how we do things but it just seems like they love to fight anything I try to do, most things end up in a screaming match.. I feel like I'm failing daily 😩
@Esmeralda that's how my son is too 🙃 he's learned "no" from my 2 year old too 🫠
Mine started chores at 2.5ish. Started simple like putting her clothes in the laundry bin or collecting her stuffies. Now we have a rule that you put away the toys you want to keep. If not they get collected in a bin and put in the closet. Then i reintroduce them slowly once she cleans her toys more
Also we don’t do rewards as much as it’s your toys, your responsibility
Not really for rewards but maybe sometimes if he wants something he’ll need to pick up all of his toys that he took out from the toy box. That’s really the only chore that he’s expected to do at this age - daily ..and sometimes he doesn’t get anything at all .& he still will need to do it. But if he’s having a hard time doing it I will help . He usually doesn’t though. He’s been picking up toys from the toy is since he was 3 but his two sister have started at 1 since they tend to follow his lead at times
Absolutely not expecting too much at all. I incorporated it as soon as he was able to walk honestly. By the time he turned 2 he was feeding the family dog an and pm. We don’t do rewards or payment for chores in my house. Everyone contributes to the mess everyone contributes to the cleaning. I give rewards for progressing in life. For example leveling up in swim class or a new belt in karate. Sometimes it’s easier to make them believe they chose. “I’m going to go clean up from dinner would you like to help rinse the plates for me or put them in the dishwasher?” With toys I get down on the ground and I give him a toy bin and I have one too and I’ll tell him if he picks up more toys than me he can watch a show before bed or whatever you want to bribe with or if I see he’s spiraling anyways I’ll say hey mamas going to help you out do you want to pick up the cars or the dinosaurs. They’re tiny people that like to have a say in their day too