Does your LO have chores? I was suprised when I saw this (initially saw it on pinterest) link where it has chores for kids from 18 months on. It's nothing really too extreme, I just never thought to have DS "wipe baseboards"! lol...I do want to start to get in the habit of having him help me put his toys away though...
Re: Chores for an 18-month old?!
I am all for it. I guess you didn't see that they sell mini "play" swiffers and such at one step ahead?
DS will have a whole cleaning set soon!
haha, DH and I want to do something similar too with savings/chores, etc...I had a lot of chores growing up so I want to have DS do something in the middle, not too many chores, not too few....but juuuust right lol
I don't consider them chores, but DS cleans up after himself usually.
He loves to dust the wainscoting, when DH or I am doing it, too, lol. He will grab a towel and go to town.
Also he LOVES doing laundry with me. Actually, he gets flat out pissed if there is no laundry. Sometimes he will have like 2 things in his basket/hamper, drag it to the laundry area and pitch a fit when I tell him it's not time to do laundry.
Haha!! That's too funny!
Agreed!
For those of you that are going to tie allowances to chores. You might want to rethink that. If your LO isn't money motivated, then they can simply decide they don't want to do chores for money. Chores/helping should be a non negotiable that has to be done without any reward.
You can have a balance. I was expected to do certain chores - clean my room, clean up after dinner, etc. But some chores were allowance driven - for me it was mow the lawn ($5 a week, for 3 acres!). I think there should be some chores that you just do because you have the right to live here, and others that are for allowance. And not for anything, if you only give your kids money via allowance, they will do the chores. You only run into issues with that if you slip your kids a $20 here and there with no work required. IMO
agreed. 100%
Unless my knives were made of play doh, I can't imagine handing them to a toddler.
I never considered them "chores", but yes my son does help out around the house.
Since 18 months, he empties the dishwasher besides the knives (great for practicing words like cup/spoon/plate, etc), throws away trash, throws dirty clothes down the laundry chute, cleans up his toys when he is done with them, help me put away groceries, etc. I cant say I ever thought to have him wipe baseboards though. LOL!
ITA. I think either extreme is negative. I think a system like that is a good balance.
Liam feeds the dogs (I help) but he puts the food in the bowls and carries them over to the dogs' mat and tells them to "sit!" and then puts the bowls down and then says "Okay!" to signal to them that they can eat. This is all with prompting but he's getting pretty good at it.
I am going to check that site out to see what else he can do. He loves to help and I might as well take advantage of it.
They're not things we expect her to do, but DD2 does love to help, and she wants to do everything her big sister does.
So she puts the clean silverware in the silverware drawer, knows how to put laundry in the washer, and knows how to start the washing machine. She loves to push the button.
DD1, 1/5/2008 ~~~ DD2, 3/17/2010
I don't have set chores for DD, but I do expect her to pick her toys up (which she does).
She loves to help clean. Whenever I'm in the kitchen cooking or baking I give her a microfiber cloth and she walks around wiping things.
ETA: She also helps put clothes into the dryer (I hand her small things like her shirts or our socks) and recently she will try to throw something away if you ask her to (but our trash lid is heavy and opens by standing on a pedal, so she will walk it over to the trash).