Apartment Therapy Tagged: chores

Survey: Do You Give Your Kids Chores?

And the even bigger question really- at what age do you start giving them chores? Do you think your toddler age 2-4 could help make the bed, take laundry to the laundry room, or dust with socks on th...

Try This! DIY Scratch Off Cards

We've been around the crafting block a time or two and it isn't often a tutorial stops us in our tracks. But that was exactly the case when we came across this super awesome idea for DIY Scratch Off...

Getting Kids To Clean Up Their Room: Use Songs and a Timer

Don't we wish we could all clap our hands like Mary Poppins and the toys would jump into their boxes, the clothes would fold themselves, the hangers right themselves in neat order? While it's unlikel...

Quick Teen & Tween Tidy Trick

We're all for instilling the wonderful joys of house cleaning in our children. But sometimes, life just gets out of control and the bedrooms of our tweens and teens can look more like the aftermath...

Do Extracurricular Activities Enrich Your Home?

Madilyn Hall takes riding lessons once a week on her her 4 legged friend Turbo. The freedom and joy she finds during her activity has her focusing more on her responsibilities and duties at home. H...

10 Secrets Of Organized Families

We know life is full of finger paintings and macaroni necklaces which is why a suggestion from a recent list of 10 secrets of organized families caught our attention. By using a mailing box for each...

Pet Protocol: At What Age Are Pets OK?

Growing up, we always heard stories from our parents about getting freshly dyed chickens and bunnies on Easter. We never received such a gift (maybe due to our lack of farm upbringing) but we did ge...

Two Surveys: Kids and Chores

Last week we talked about instilling the value of housework in kids and reports of diminishing chore-doing by this generation and we wanted to know more about how it works in your family. At what a...

Blogging WSJ: On the Virtues of Making Your Children Do the Dishes

Do your kids do as many chores as you did? The average 6-12 year old spends about 24 minutes a day helping out around the house - a 25% drop from 1981 - and probably an even steeper drop from your ...