
Why Children Need Chores
Doing household chores has many benefits—academically, emotionally and even professionally.
By Jennifer Breheny Wallace
March 13, 2015 12:04 p.m. ET
Today’s demands for measurable childhood success—from the Common Core to college placement—have chased household chores from the to-do lists of many young people. In a survey of 1,001 U.S. adults released last fall by Braun Research, 82% reported having regular chores growing up, but only 28% said that they require their own children to do them. With students under pressure to learn Mandarin, run the chess club or get a varsity letter, chores have fallen victim to the imperatives of resume-building—though it is hardly clear that such activities are a better use of their time.
“Parents today want their kids spending time on things that can bring them success, but ironically, we’ve stopped doing one thing that’s actually been a proven predictor of success—and that’s household chores,” says Richard Rende, a developmental psychologist in Paradise Valley, Ariz., and co-author of the forthcoming book “Raising Can-Do Kids.” Decades of studies show the benefits of chores—academically, emotionally and even professionally.
https://reason.com/blog/2015/03/30/you-know-who-else-thought-the-nsa-mass-m
yes so true. get off the dam I pads and cell phones and get a life. get out side and help your mom and dad around the home.
Oh boy — help dad cut that grass and mom prepare dinner would be a good start this Spring.
I’ll go for that.
Most Dad doesn’t cut the lawn anymore in Ridgewood. He has a service do it. Its nor like the old days Dom.
How about instead of these dumb fundraisers trying to get me to buy a plant or oranges you instead ask if I have any odd jobs? I have some great odd jobs for a teen and no time to do them. The kid would raise more money and I would get something I need.
I can’t wait until my son is old enough that I can delegate.
I had pants like that. What were my parents thinking…?
Yea I know what you mean 8:19. Had the same pants.