What age do kids start getting ready for school by themselves? Doing their own laundry? Doing chores? etc...?

Question

Please list what age your kids started to do things by themselves! Thanks!

Answer 1

My son is 11 and I still have a battle w/him every night just to get him to brush his teeth!! so, to answer you-I hope soon, he will become more "good natured" and helpful as he gets thru these awful "tween" years!

Answer 2

at 5 i have to nag my single child to everything...but she can do it...she gets dressed, brushes her hair and teeth and pours her own cereal. she can make poptarts and frozen waffles with supervision. She cleans her room, helps sort laundry, picks up messes, scrubs the floor or wipes up messes(without me asking) when she spills (usually with something I don't want her to, but thats better than nothing)...um...did an okay job WASHING dishes tonight OMG! and puts her dishes and silverware away. Im not the most consistent with her about chores and stuff, so I think she does great considering my inconsistency.

Answer 3

At 2 1/2-3 they make their own beds(as best they can LOL), get themselves dressed(I help pick, and lay out outfits) and can gather and sort laundry, pick up after themselves etc. I home school, so imagine the routine of getting ready for public school is much more hectic, but at 5, my children are able to organize and prepare their books for the days lesson. Of course they can take care of getting dressed and personal hygiene at that age also.

I think it all depends on the childs level of understanding and at what age these rules are implemented. Each family has it's own timeline.

Answer 4

Depends on the type of chores.  Laundry I would say 12 or 13 years old.  Dishes I would say 10 years old.  Cleaning their room I would say 5 years old.  Getting ready for school-7 years old.

Answer 5

My daughter came to us after being in care for the first 5 years and she did everything for herself (dressing etc.). She started little chores like tidying her room when she came to us. Now she is 13 and loves to vacuum and do the ironing.

Answer 6

My daughter was dressing herself at age 5 and now picks out her own clothes at age 8. She can load the dish washer, clean her own room and vacummes.  She can bathe herself including hair. She has trouble with brushing her hair though but tries.

Answer 7

Well I have a 10 and 7 year old is school.  

Right now I do about everything.  I usually lay their clothes out and get them breakfast.  They are in charge of shoes, hair and bags.  I would say mine are pretty pampered but it works for us.  I teach preschool and have some preschool kids in class that dress them self and get their own cereal.  I guess kids do what they are taught to do.

Answer 8

It depends entirely on what you teach them to do and how you teach them.  One friend started teaching her son by 14 months to pick up his toys and put them to bed - nightly bedtime ritual and it was a "game" - find the toy and put it to "bed" in the toybox. He always knows where his toys, shoes, and other things are and takes good care of them.  Another friend can't get a 5y.o. to find her shoes to get dressed for kindergarten.

I start teaching kids to cook by age 3-4. They learn kitchen safety, nutrition, sanitation/food safety, measurements, math, and a whole lot more step-by-step.  It's FUN, they love it, and they cheerfully set the table, fold napkins, clean up without any "reminding," etc.

It is strictly up to the parents. It is part of being a parent to teach children everything they need to know to take care of themselves, contribute to the wellbeing of the entire family and eventually to take care of their own home and family.

Answer 9

My son loves to vaccum so we got him a small one at the age of 3.  He is 8 and helps me to cook, cleans his own room, loves yardwork,, takes the garbage out, cleans.  He does it because he wants to.  Don't know how long it will last but I tell him that is best he knows how to learn to do these things now and get used to it in case when he gets married or not he won't depend on anyone or he will be a help to someone which is not much that I can say for his father who does absolutely nothing around the house.

Answer 10

Up until I was about 5, my mother dressed me, bathed me, cleaned my room, and did everything for me. Then I began doing things independantly. I was an only child, so that might be why I was spoiled.

Answer 11

I remember starting to do thing like dishes at 8 years old and each of us kids had a week of dishes that rotated out.  I personally will not do that with my children.  I think that by age 5 or 6 they can dress themselves without any help, by 10 they can help a night or two a week with dishes, they can clean their own rooms at around age 2 (hey my daughter is 2 and cleans her own toys up), and as far as doing their own laundry, I'd say once they hit high school.  

In our family though my husband and I share chores equally and that is how we plan to do it when our children reach certain ages.  They will have their set of daily chores (clean up after yourself, dress yourself, clean your room) and weekly chores (dishes once or twice a week, take out the trash, clean the bathroom once a week) but not too much.  

My parents put 99% of the chores on us kids and that is about the only complaint I have with them, but it did teach me how to scrub a bathtub to a pearly white shine :)

Answer 12

Mine is 10yr old girl and still waiting, she is a bit messy, (so was I) she dresses and brushes her teeth and does her own hair, but only to the minute we have to leave in the morning.  She is doing so well at school (A's all the way +) and at extra sport but is a pig at home!

Answer 13

My son would vacuum when he was in 2nd grade and up and he loved it.  In sixth grade, especially in the summer, I would have him do his own laundry, but he's really not that good at it.  Now, I wash his clothes and he puts them up.  He is 13--seventh grade and mows the lawn and basically cleans after himself.  He is so busy with school and sports that it's difficult to do chores.  I just make him keep his room clean and clean after himself.  As far as picking out clothes and stuff like that, he started doing that on his own in fith grade.  Sixth grade, I started making him make his own breakfast like cereal, waffles, pop tarts....the easy stuff.

I did much more, but I think girls are better at doing chores (I'm trying to train him though, so he won't be helpless in college)!

My 21/2 year old son helps me take out the trash, rake leaves, and hands me the dishes from the dishwasher.

I wish the older ones loved to help as much as the little ones!

Answer 14

mine are 9 and I only just realised that I don't nag them to get ready for school.

They have always got ready by themselves but with lot's of reminders.

Started dressing themselves at 2

getting their own breakfast at 5

Doing chores at 3 (only little things and as the got older things were added)

I do their laundry but they know how to and occassionally put the machine on for me but they have to turn their clothes in the right way all the time and put them in the machine. that is just something they have done since about 3.

My kids are pretty independant and have just wanted to do things by themselves.

Answer 15

i think about 7 you start teaching them how and about 8 they should be expected just to do it like a choir

Answer 16

I have 10 and 8 year olds.  They buy lunch at school, so that's something I don't have to do. But they dress themselves in the morning, see to their own teeth and hair and get their backpacks ready.

The 10 year olds can operate both the washer and dryer and do the laundry for me when I need them to. They all fold and put away their own clothing.

The older ones also vaccuum, clean their bathroom, take trash out and sweep on a regular basis.

In the summertime they can mow the lawn and help my husband wash the vechicles. They started that last year.

Household chores they have been doing for two years now though I started teaching them before that. The 8 year old makes the beds and is learning to do the things his older brothers do. He can Windex the glass though, help tidy up, set the table and clear the table. He's been doing that since he was 6.

I started teaching my kids to take responsibility when they were very small and at ten my oldest can do a lot independently. I have had a lot of criticism for it, but I think it can only benefit them. Not just when they leave for college etc, but what if I died tomorrow? They won't be helpless or entirely dependent on anyone else and the thought makes me very happy.

Answer 17

My six-year-old can get herself ready for school, except for doing her hair.  She can also take a shower and wash her own hair, if someone checks to see if she rinsed out all the shampoo.  She cleans her room, sets the table, folds and puts away her laundry, and scoops the kitty litter.

My 11-year-old can do her own laundry.  She will also do mine for $1.00 a load!   She changes the cat box, vacuums, starts dinner every night, and does dishes by hand that can't go in the dishwasher.

My 17-year-old  mows the lawn (for a fee!), empties the dishwasher, does her own laundry, keeps her room clean (sometimes!), and washes the car.

Answer 18

well ok ill tell u what i can do im 13....

i can clean my room

make my bed

i cant do my own landrey

i can get ready by my self do my hair make up and get dressed(would be werid if i couldnt! lol)

doing chores? pfft i dont do chores my parents offered me 20 bucks a week everyday to do the dishes but i turned them down.......