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How to Get Your Kids to Help Around the House in 5 Steps:

1. Work Alongside Them

Expect that it will take an average of 7 or 8 times for them to learn the skill on their own. Once they have the skill done, work where they can see you are working as well. If they see you hanging out relaxing, they are often going to feel like a slave. This usually cuts down on the complaining when you remind them that you are both working and helping the family and household. This isn’t always possible, but it’s especially helpful if you are just starting a new cleaning routine, have a big project you are working on together or even if you need an opportunity to have a nice unconfrontational chat with your child, working together is a great time to do that.

2. Talk it Up

Thank them for helping the family. Praise the little things they are doing right in their cleaning. Help them practice on areas they don’t quite have right, but be as positive as possible. Get them excited about how they are doing grown up tasks and celebrate with them how good they will be at taking care of themselves when they are grown up and living on their own. Make sure your comments are genuine. Any kid can see through false praise.

3. Define Your Expectations

If you have certain standards for cleaning a bedroom or a bathroom, walk them through it, but also print out a list. Let them know if you expect a quick tidy up or a deep clean.

4. Make it Fun

There are so many fun job charts you can use (we have many on our website), or games you can play. For example, we did a balloon chart one day. We put the chores inside the balloons and the kids popped the balloons to see what chore they needed to do next.

Monetizing jobs, giving them technology minutes or rewarding them with treats or prizes work really well for us. The biggest thing is to mix it up. We all get bored doing the same thing all the time.

5. Be Consistent

Expect for the chore to be done when you assign it. Check up on them, thank them, let them know you noticed.

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Dishwasher Dangers was inspired by my son. He was really struggling to get his chores done. He just could NOT get that dishwasher emptied without being distracted 50 times. One day instead of getting mad, I tried to think of what was happening in his mind. What fantasy was he living in his imaginary world that would be keeping him from doing his chores? Was he fighting off something that was keeping him from putting the silverware away? That is when Dishwasher Dangers was born!!

Favorite parenting book: The Parenting Breakthrough by Merrilee Boyack