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 ...

One 75-year study from Harvard found that children who are encouraged to do chores around the house are more likely to be ...

Once school is out for Summer, kids' schedules and routines tend to become a bit more lax, which means a messier home, messier kids, more dirty, ice-cream-stained laundry than you know what to do with ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Not long ago, I heard a radio story talking about how children in ...

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, ...

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 ...