What are normal acceptable or average chores for a 10 year old girl?

Question

She doesn't have any so i feel kids should have some besides going around picking on her brother all the time and whinning. Any suggestions??

Answer 1

I believe all children should have some responsibilities. Cleaning their room, picking up their toys...  For a 10 year old girl I would say, clean her room, make her bed, clean up her toys, feed her pets, do her homework, set the table and watch her brother.

Answer 2

My daughter at age nine did folding of clothes, unloading dryer, dishwasher unloading and putting away, tidy up living room, washed windows a little, tidys up her room and dusts her furniture in her room and windex on her TV and mirrors.  I gave her allowance once a week, I generally give my kids HALF their age per week. So my now 13 yr old gets 6.50 a week IF she does her chores.  My boys are more on the slacking side, my ten year old does laundry too and takes out trash and tidys up the back yard, and his room and the 8 yr old son is about the same.

Answer 3

My 9 yr old girl loadd and unloads the dishwasher, cleans her room, folds laundry, sweeps, seperates laundry by color, cleans windows... they can do most things.

Answer 4

1. clean room

2. help out mom and dad with errands

3. help mom or dad with doing the laundry

4. help with a younger sibling or a younger family member

Answer 5

vacuming sweeping dishes and trash clean room and make of the bed

Answer 6

Giving her twenty minutes of daily chores plus a little extra on the weekend sounds about right.  Rather than just assigning a chore, it may be better to put her 'in charge' of something on a regular basis so she learns responsibility as well as the fact that life gives us work to do.  Maybe get her to vacuum, drag the dishes to the kitchen daily, and keep her room straightened up.

Answer 7

dishes, floors, dust, bathrooms, feed pets, etc.  She's old enough for any of it at this point.

Answer 8

My 9 year old takes out the trash feeds the dogs, and helps, with doing her laundry and my 7 year old loads the dishwasher and feeds the cats.  They both clean the yard once a week as well.

I think at 10, your daughter should be doing dishes on a nightly basis or at least rotating it with other people.  She should also start doing her own laudry (or helping you with it), dusting, vacuuming, make her responsible for the care of the family pet (if you have one), etc.  Chores aren't punishment.  Everyone in the house needs to pull their own weight and pitch in.

Answer 9

I keep a "Chore Chart" pinned on my refridgerator and my two older kids have a chore to do every weekday. Nothing on the weekends. Their chores include vacuuming, dusting, clean bedroom thoroughly, dishes, laundry (sorting, folding, putting away own clothes). Once they are done their chore they are then allowed to watch tv, play a game, or go outside.

Answer 10

At the age of ten, she should be able to clean her room, help wash the dishes and pick up mess around the house.  As well you might ask her to help fold the luandery.

Answer 11

How about cleaning her room, making her bed, putting dishes away and dusting.