That’s why I decided to try dopamine pairing, a simple way to hack your brain to make chores easier, which links a task you ...

When I went away to college, my mom gave me a recipe box filled with index cards labeled with chores, organized by date, as a gift. She explained this was how she learned to keep up with housework.

There’s nobody under the age of 30 in my home, and yet we have something in our home a lot of parents use for their children: ...

Do you require your children to do chores? Should you? Truth be told, it’s often a lot easier to do the work ourselves – especially when trying to manage the assignments we give our kids becomes a ...

I was in my first semester of teaching college students when I quickly learned how helpless some of my students were. Some showed up to class in clearly dirty clothing. As I prepared for starting ...

I’m preparing myself for a collective gasp from the internet as I make my revelation: I don’t make my kids do chores. They don’t even clean their own rooms. Now hold on: This doesn’t mean they don’t ...

My 13-year-old daughter vacuumed last night, right after she helped to load the dishwasher with the dinner dishes. She was slow. Geez Louise, was she slow. She complained about it. Declared that "none ...

When summer vacation started a few weeks ago, I was determined to get my children to pitch in more around the house. While I had always required them to pick up after themselves, they never had set ...

My husband and I split our household chores based on our strengths and interests. We joke that I'm the CEO of our house, and he's the COO. My husband and I joke that I'm the CEO and he's the COO of ...

Every January, my website gets a spike in traffic from parents looking for ways to revamp their children’s chore assignments. They are resolved to be more intentional in the New Year about ...

Charts, lists, gold stars, jars with chores written on slips of paper, family chore time, allowances - the list goes on and on. Over the years my husband and I have tried just about everything to get ...

It would happen every time. I'd make what to me seemed like a reasonable request, "Please clean your room," and my three boys would dissolve into a puddle on the floor as if I had just crushed all ...