How much time does your child spend doing chores?

My niece is 12 and usually she spends about 45mins a day doing chores - keeping her room tidy, watering the flowers, laying the dinner table and taking out trash. And sometimes when I need help with something else, like folding the laundry or something, she likes to help. Do you think this is alright? How much time does your child spend doing chores? How old is s/he?

i think it is perfectly fine. your teaching her how to be independant and keep a household clean and tidy. Your doing a wonderul job.

oh. Elissa (7.5mnth) spends most of her day vaacuuming, doing dishes, washing car ect. lol IN MY DREAMS!!
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Activities such as the ones you mention that children and young people do, should not be seen as chores or something they have to do because someone says they do. There should be a gradual increase of responsibility given to young people to take charge of the things that need to be done. What they do depends on the age and maturity of the child, and their parents ability to allow them to do things for themselves.. 45 minutes is not a lot.

Depends on the day! My younger daughters (12 and 13) empty the dishwasher daily, set the table and straighten the living room. The 13 year old often helps make dinner because she enjoys it. My 16 year old son is responsible for taking trash to curb weekly and cutting the grass. My 20 year old is not home often but cleaning our bathrooms weekly is her house chore. They are all responsible for doing their own laundry.
One of them vacuums weekly and they all pitch in with carrying groceries and putting them away.
Their bedrooms are their responsibility and if they want to live in a stinky, messy room then they need to keep the door shut.

every chore is a communal activity as long as everyone in the house is involved, it teaches them responsibility. At our house chores are set, and we are responsible to do them or we get more. And when everyone is doing it, it is much less work for mom and dad. And we have fun anyway, its something we can do together and thats when we get to learn a lot about what goes on at school and work etc. Yest we were in the garden all day, it was hard work but we enjoyed each others company and we got a lot of satisfaction out of it by admiring our work.

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My seven year old spends about 15 or 20 minutes, which is the same amount of time that she spends doing homework. Knowledge of business and finance, please go to pregnancy

45 minutes sounds reasonable, as long as you're willing to let her skip a few if there is something special going on like a school dance.

ofcourse it's alright.. i've never really done any chores.. it's not like i didn't want to do it but my mom never really wants my dad and i to help... she said 'we don't do it in the right way she does'

My son used to spend far too long up the chimney when he got stuck. He was better down the mine though j/k. 45 mins is fine.

Child labour? Nope, earn your keep!

when i was about 8 i was push mowning the lawn ^-^. good times... anyway, 45 mins a day if reasonable, not alot but enough to give them a productive habbit.

my kids are 12 and 6 they spend about 10 minutes a day