According to the article:
"Children need chores. Helping out around the house teaches social and family responsibility. It gives your child a sense of accomplishment and pride and helps her learn practical skills...."
"Two-, 3-, and 4-year-olds love to be helpers. Harnessing this natural impulse makes starting chores easy...."
For Erik, we've been slowly assigning him "chores" such as putting his clothes into his own hamper but sometimes he loves to use that IKEA hamper and pretend he's a Jellyfish, thanks to Nemo, and demands that we "bounce" on him like Marlin and Dory. We've also seen Erik taken an interest in setting the table up for meals, which he did so ON HIS OWN, to our surprise on evening, but we haven't asked him to do it as a routine...but probably will now :o) hahaha!
The site also listed out some age-appropriate task examples such as (read more here):
At 2, your child should be able to:
At 3, your child should be able to:
4 comments:
We haven't assigned formal chores to Karalyn, but we ask her to put her dirty clothes, shoes and toys away. She also helps me "cook" sometimes. And she loves to clean! I have asked her to "clean" the shower, she enjoys that. I like the idea of the napkins and sorting the laundry.
Dita helps with putting away her dirty clothes in the laundry basket too. She loves to feel responsible, though she is temperamental sometimes and you cannot count on the help coming through always...:) She also helps out with the car wash. Good ideas here.
Hey Smita! Welcome to the blog & comment! I think Dita needs to teach Erik a point or two, especially the car wash!!
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