What are your family members jobs around the house??

[kimmee]

I know you've probably talked about this before but I couldn't find it in a search.

What are your childrens jobs and do they do them - do they need to be reminded and how do you do this? Do they get paid or special priviledges??/ What are your spouse's (SO's) jobs?? Do they just automatically do them?? is there a fair division of labor in your house - including if you work outside the home -

who cooks  and cleans the kitchen?

 

[mommy2many]

The children don't get paid for their duties around here We are trying to teach them that being apart of the family means you just do your part.

The children all (excpet when they are babies) have the following each day:
Make beds
Clean rooms
Take out trash
The older girls each evening must help me clean the kitchen after dinner(we only have girls so it't not like that )
Then they sweep the kitchen and wipe off the table.

Not hard chores but just everyday things a child should learn how to do. Us adults do everything else.

[Darlene]

Kids used to get an allowance for various jobs. Now they do them just because.
Mark emptys the dishwasher & helps when asked
Nicole does things on her own & when I ask
Jack does most of the outdoor stuff & loads the dw in the morning.
Me, I do everything else.

[matt&roxy]

Matthew takes out the garbage and then takes it to the road on pick up day. Other than that, I do everything. If I am sick or just don't feel like doing something, than Matthew will.


He gets paid with hugs and kisses...........

[mylittle4]

Our kids do not get paid for what they do around the house either. They can however earn stickers when they impress me for instance doing their chore with out being reminded and then also not asking for a sticker afterwords. They can redeem 5 stickers for 1 hour of internet time. We started this because we were fighting with them to do their chores and they were also always asking if they could get on the computer. As for chores it goes like this:
The 2 older girls rotate general pick up of the Living Room and Dining Room. These are done after dinner so dining room includes cleaning up after dinner.
Our ds does the bathroom hallway and staircase.
Our youngest helps me in the kitchen and keeps the walk in pantry picked up.
They all are expected to keep their bedrooms atleast generally picked up and put away their own laundry. They also take turns taking out the trash.(except the 4 year old).
Dh takes out trash on trash day (has to be bagged in trash company bags)and puts away his own laundry. he will also do generaly anything I ask him too. he does the floors on the weekends if he is off but its been awhile and he hauls all the laundry up and down the basement stairs. I think he will be building a laundry shoot soon LOL.
I do all cooking, laundry, actual cleaning beyond just picking up, most errands, kitchen cleaning, bill paying, and grocery shopping, and all the other general stuff that has to be done to run the house.

[pkellyc]

Teenagers both female are in charge of their own rooms, their own laundry and odd jobs around the house when asked. Odd jobs consist of: dishes, vacuming, trash, general picking up. They never are expected to do any heavy cleaning. I am a sham so I do the bulk of it. If I worked outside the home they would be pitching in even more. Pay for what? Being a member of their own family? Learning how to clean up after themselves? Allowances were given to teach them how to deal with money not for chores.

[COUNTRYBUMPKIN]

We uses to have a chore list for the dd's, but now that they are older, they just pitch in wherever needed. I guess that became so used to doing their chores, they just know now what needs to be done, and they do it plus more. Dh and I both do laundry, shopping, cooking, yard work etc. We have to because we have two places to keep up and it would just be too much for one person. The dd's now get $100.00 a month, each one of them. When they were little and doing chores, they got alot less. They use this money for clothing, haircare products, sporting events etc. If everyone pitches in, it makes a household run so much smoother and a whole lot less stress!

[KKCondrey]

Joe has cat litter duty for now (although I may let him keep that job)
We both cook, clean, do laundry, vacuum etc.

[Missy]

I cook and clean and do all general "domestic chores"

Dh works, does outside and inside maintenance (servicing the machines and equipment, frige, stove, computer, etc) gutters, yard clean up and Trash, maintains cars as well.

DS (5 y/o) removes clean dishes from the machine, puts away clean laundry takes dirty laundry from the rooms to the laundry room, feeds the cat clears the dinner table.

DD (2 y/o)...well not too much help there. I try to get her to do stuff, but if she learns something today, it is forgotten by morning. She does try to help unload the dryer and she can put away kitchn towels. We're working on this. If i tell her to do something, seh generally does it (throw this away, take that to the laundry room, put this in the sink, etc)

[Jayne]

I do all the cooking (dh can not cook )
We both do the dishes
he does most of the vacumming
I do the bathrooms
I do the laundry
he does the trash
he does the yard work
I do the inside stuff like washing floors and dusting
I do the bills
we grocery shop together
Sometimes our grandson will ask to go on "poop patrol" in the yard and we pay him for it

[DaisyLady]

The kids are responsible for their own rooms, their bathroom, their laundry (I will help them with laundry but I don't fold or put it away). They also share the dishes everynight including wiping down the counters and table. Taking the dogs in also the job of the younger two. Josh can't do that so he collects all the garbage on garbage night and makes sure the recyclables are ready to go to the curb.

All three help with the outside work in the summer and snow shovelling (except Josh) in the winter.

They also have to do a chore if they want to use the computer and one if they want to use the Xbox. Things like sweeping, dusting, shaking out carpets.

I domost of the cooking and baking but the kids are really starting to help out with that too.

DH makes our bed, does a lot of outdoor work and does the maintenance on the cars. He helps out when I ask him to.

Everything else I do or delegate.

[daddys3chicks]

Dh takes out the trash, and cooks sometimes when I am too tired. He also does laundry when he runs out of underwear and I have more underwear than he does so can outlast him!

Katie and Amanda are responsible for taking their plates and glasses to the sink after dinner, Katie sets the table, feeds the hermit crabs. Amanda feeds and waters the cat. Both are responsible to take changed clothes to either the laundry basket or laundry room. Both are repsonsible to put their shoes in the shoe bucket.

Neither one gets and allowance although I may start one for Katie (she'll be 7 the 27th of this month) Katie will help unload the dishwasher, and she is learning how to do laundry. Amanda (3) is responsible for keeping the accent pillows from the couch on the couch and off the floor. Oh and they are both responsible for picking up their toys, which neither is very good at.

[bamamomto4]

Dh does the trash,yard work( I sometimes help) and helps put up Katie and Jackson laundry.

Katie and Jackson help with their laundry and clean their rooms.Katie will also help pick up Jayme's toys if I ask. She's at that age where she likes helping

Ashley folds and puts away her laundry (I wash it) cleans her room,bathroom,washes dishes (I sometimes help or we use the dishwasher) everynight (more on weekends)and sweeps the kitchen.

Jayme makes the biggest mess she can.

I do everything else.

My kids don't get paid for chores. If they want something and it's not a waste of money,we buy it for them.

[Mom23boys]

My boys are on a rotating chart. Each day they have 2 chores that they are required to do besides do their homework and clean their rooms and bathroom. The 6 chores are sweep the floors, take out the trash, wash the dishes, put away the dishes, fold laundry (each is responsible for putting away their own), and feed the pets. During the months when the lawn needs mowed, they also take care of that.

DH does most of the cooking. He also vacuums, helps with yard work and does the car maintenance.

I cook, mop, clean the bathrooms to my liking, grocery shop, make the bed, etc. I do most of the major house cleaning. The chores the boys have just help me out since we are all out of the house everyday due to work and school.

I think I would end up doing it all if I didn't work outside of the home.

My kids do get allowance, but they have to EARN it.

[AmyBoz]

Well, Rob takes out the trash and the recycling. He shovels when it snows and rakes the leaves when they fall. He gives the kids their baths each night while I clean up the kitchen after dinner and gets them fed, dressed, and off to daycare/nursery school every morning.

I do everything else.

Julia helps to set the table, empty the plastic stuff out of the dishwasher, pushes the wet clothes in the dryer when I put them on the pulled down door, picks up the dirty clothes from the floor and puts them in the washing machine. She helps to make her bed and puts her dirty clothes in her closet each night.

We don't give her an allowance at this time, but I'm thinking about making up a chore chart with a few of these chores on it and thinking of some sort of reward system for some of the bigger chores and then just letting her know that the other chores are hers because she lives here.