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Good afternoon my name is Selestine and I think children should do chores without being paid.

I think it is wrong that parents give their kids money when they do chores around the house. Firstly I don’t think it is fair.  Secondly, it doesn’t help them build up their capabilities to do chores. Thirdly it gives children the wrong message about the shared responsibility of being a member of a family.

If you do a lot of chores and your parents give you money, the money for the whole family is now with the kids.  This is another reason why Children should not do chores for money.

Another reason Kids should do chores for no money is because it is not fair for the adults to do everything and everyone must be involved it family life within reason. What do I mean by within reason?

I mean not forcing kids to do chores. A parent should only force children if they need to and they are acting like a spoiled brat.  

For example, when my dad was aged 9, he had a lot of responsibility.

Because he was the  oldest of 4 children (he had 3 brothers and one sister) and his parents worked very late nights, he did a lot of the chores.

When everyone was asleep he would walk outside and go to sleep in the garage and he did not even get paid for all the things that he did.

I do a reasonable amount of chores on Saturday. For example, I wake up and spend all morning in my room and then when I go down for breakfast me and my dad and family clean the entire house.

When it was done we all eat a big breakfast together, so it motivates me and we do the same thing on Sundays.

 

I also believe it is unacceptable for parents to do all the hard work.

When kids are older they will have no idea how to do cooking, cleaning, laundry or anything.

Lots of kids are very privileged and live like princes and princesses and their parents behave like the servants which does not seem very fair.

Doing chores for money also gives children the wrong message. Kids get the message that they can get away with anything including not doing their chores or that they deserve money just for contributing to their family like it’s going above and beyond what should happen as a family member.

Children should start doing chores as soon as they are able to help. The best age to start it my opinion,  your brother,sister or even your child is able to start at the age of 3.

An easy chore that you can start at is table setting you can draw how the table is supposed to be set so they can copy it when they are setting the real supper table. You can also remind children to put things back where they need to go and one more thing that children can do is dusting.

These are the reasons why kids should do chores for their families for no pocket money.

Thank-you