Parents often struggle with how to best navigate chores with their children. For some families, allowing their child to not engage in family chores or to keep a messy room is acceptable. Other ...

Chores: the one parenting topic on which all the experts actually agree. Kids should be doing them. Kids: universal oath that said chores must be avoided at all costs, whined about excessively, ...

When I read the statistic from a University of Maryland study that children between the ages of six and twelve spend only twenty-four minutes a day doing housework, a 25 percent decline from 1981, my ...

A week or so ago I offered my son $2 to shovel the front steps. (We have a lot of them.) It was late afternoon and I was staring down another hour of work, walking the dog and making dinner. Not only ...

Getting your kids and stepkids to do their chores can seem like a, well, real chore. But don't despair; a neat and orderly household is possible. (The Oregonian) While plagues, power-hungry leaders ...

Welcome to the New Year! Though we’ve just entered the new decade, chances are you’re getting pretty sick and tired of reading about everyone’s 2020 New Year’s resolutions: Less Netflix, more reading.