We all do our share around the house to help mom keep the house in tip top shape. But in the winter there are some chorus the younger children just can not handle like shoveling the snow. Here are some great chores for those long winter months.
There are many rewards for providing your kids with chores to do. You are teaching your children to responsibilities, you are teaching them time management, and you are helping them contribute to the running of the house. Normally younger children are much more eager to jump right in and help. But as they start getting older that is when they will start to complain and getting slower and slower at doing their chores and finishing them.
Young children around the age of 2 or 3 love to help Mom and Dad. So this is the perfect tiem to get them to start helping you around the house, and begin to teach them how to do chores. You want to let them help all they want because this will not last forever. You will want to help them while they are learning how to do their chores the proper way.
Toddler winter chores:
-Place hat and gloves inside the sleeve of their coat or their pocket so they don’t loose them.
-They can dry off the pets when they come indoors from outside.
Now your preschool children are going to still be pretty eager to help. And at this age they are going to start wanting to do things for themselves. But now that they are a little older they will not need quiet as much of your help doing chores.
Preschool winter chores:
-They can sweep the front or rear entry way
-They will be able to help carry in grocery bags from the car to the house
Grade school children are starting to get to the age where they may be as willing to help. Also at this age there is hardly any supervision that is needed.
Grade School Winter Chores:
- Feed, water and take care of the pets
- They will be able to take the trash out and put a new trash bag into the trash can
- Sweep the sidewalk leading to the door
Pre-teens are when the kids really start testing boundaries, they are going to argue and probley do a poor job of the chore so that you will not ask them to do the chore again.
Pre-Teen Chores:
- Shovel the snow from the drive or walkway
- Take the trashcans out to the road on trash day
- Scrap the ice from the vehicle windows
Now Teens will be able to do their chores without supervision but they are going to probley all but refuse to do them
Teen Chores:
- Teens can do the shoveling around the house
- They can also help out with gather up wood as you are chopping it
- Teens can also begin to help mop and clean the floors
With cold weather right around the corner it is important to get the whole family to pitch in and help you out with chores. It is just as important to teach your children these chores so that they will be able to run a household when they get older. And then once it is time for the spring cleaning your children will know what is expected of them.
