When I went away to college, my mom gave me a recipe box filled with index cards labeled with chores, organized by date, as a gift. She explained this was how she learned to keep up with housework.

Microshifting is a simple, flexible approach to work-like tasks that means you do less desirable chores around other commitments, rather than the other way around. Now, my home feels calmer, my ...

When I was growing up, I didn’t have to do chores. I did simple things like keeping my room (vaguely) tidy, clearing the table after meals, and trying to remember to put my toys and schoolwork away.

It’s good for parents to give their kids chores to do, but should the list of chores change as they get older and go out into the workforce? In this story, one teenage girl is supposed to do the ...

A week or so ago I offered my son $2 to shovel the front steps. (We have a lot of them.) It was late afternoon and I was staring down another hour of work, walking the dog and making dinner. Not only ...

I'm a mom to an almost 2-year-old girl. My husband and I have been picking up after her when she goes to bed, but it's exhausting. I want her to be involved in household chores because it helps ...

My 13-year-old daughter vacuumed last night, right after she helped to load the dishwasher with the dinner dishes. She was slow. Geez Louise, was she slow. She complained about it. Declared that "none ...

Teens are… well…teens. If you’ve got one, you know they are great at pushing back, craving independence, and debating almost everything. On the flip side, they ...