When I went away to college, my mom gave me a recipe box filled with index cards labeled with chores, organized by date, as a gift. She explained this was how she learned to keep up with housework.

Do you require your children to do chores? Should you? Truth be told, it’s often a lot easier to do the work ourselves – especially when trying to manage the assignments we give our kids becomes a ...

Microshifting is a simple, flexible approach to work-like tasks that means you do less desirable chores around other commitments, rather than the other way around. Now, my home feels calmer, my ...

It’s good for parents to give their kids chores to do, but should the list of chores change as they get older and go out into the workforce? In this story, one teenage girl is supposed to do the ...

Every January, my website gets a spike in traffic from parents looking for ways to revamp their children’s chore assignments. They are resolved to be more intentional in the New Year about ...

My 13-year-old daughter vacuumed last night, right after she helped to load the dishwasher with the dinner dishes. She was slow. Geez Louise, was she slow. She complained about it. Declared that "none ...

Charts, lists, gold stars, jars with chores written on slips of paper, family chore time, allowances - the list goes on and on. Over the years my husband and I have tried just about everything to get ...

When summer vacation started a few weeks ago, I was determined to get my children to pitch in more around the house. While I had always required them to pick up after themselves, they never had set ...

I was in my first semester of teaching college students when I quickly learned how helpless some of my students were. Some showed up to class in clearly dirty clothing. As I prepared for starting ...

It would happen every time. I'd make what to me seemed like a reasonable request, "Please clean your room," and my three boys would dissolve into a puddle on the floor as if I had just crushed all ...

When I was growing up in the '80s, it was rare to meet a child who didn't have a list of household chores he was expected to complete on a daily basis. My own chore list included picking my dirty ...