Kids need chores and responsibilities around the house

We need to clean and organize the house. It's aways a drag. The kids are still too young to really do anything much. They do help though. I believe children should do their part to contribute to a househould. My kids are being trained to pick up after themselves. I can't stand it always having to pick up after them and I should not have to. Kids need responsibilities too and picking up their toys after they play with them is not too much to expect.

I'm on the fence about paying an allowance. When I was a child, I did receive one. I remember sometimes I was highly motivated to work to save up for a purchase and other times I did my chores because I was forced to. My children aren't very motivated by money but regardless, they need to learn how to pick up and contribute to maintaining our home. Of course it needs to be age appropritate. My youngest can clear the table and put her books back on the shelf. My oldest can match socks in the laundry, pick up toys/stuff and distribute to the correct room, and certainly clean her own room. I'm trying to give her more responsibilites every year and before I know it, she'll be dusting, vaccuuming and scrubing the toilets. Little does she know what is coming!

So...off we go. We'll strip the beds, vaccum up the dirt, do loads and loads of laundry and general pickup. Once a week we have to do a purge...believe it or not we sitll have boxes from our move years ago to unpack. Before we move again, we need to get rid of stuff. But that's another post....