What chores your kids should be doing at every age and why it’s important not to get it wrong
“Children who are raised never to do anything can find it quite hard to adjust later on and can find it quite hard in other settings where actually things are expected of them.”
Parents should use their own knowledge of their child to decide which jobs are reasonable, but here’s what Sophie recommends for each age group.“I generally start around two or three, and then it’s more about cooperation,” says Sophie. It’s also important that any reward is a very small thing, so you don’t risk getting caught up in escalating treats.
“Aside from schooling, your child doesn’t have to have screen time so if you want to use that then you can and that’s quite good leverage. Sophie says: “I’m quite pro children being taught to use tools safely, so I would be perfectly happy, in a supervised way, for an eight year old to be using quite a sharp knife.
If you’ve involved your child in the weekly food shop from a young age, she suggests a good idea is putting a 12 year old, for example, in charge of dinner once a week.So if they want pizza, they’d have to buy the base and the topping ingredients.Sophie says this helps children to learn how to budget and cook but also to take into account other people’s preferences as they need to choose something that’s appropriate for everyone in the family.
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