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How can I teach my tween to do chores?
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Mary Jane Beach
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Family Therapy is my passion, I worked at Redbank House for 10 years, working intensely with families, primarily with children with behaviour difficulties. Then and … View Profile
Incentive is the key, nobody likes doing chores, we don't kids don'd, but they do have to be done.
Also huge research on self esteem and chores, the more competent a person feels the better they feel about themselves. My own children all had set chores, pocket money was on Sunday, their room had to be tidy before pocket money would be handed over, very simple, chores done, room tidy pocket money, if now done no pocket money, seemed to work.
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I am 14yr old and i do have chores my self and sometimes what can help is like for an exaple 25 cents every time he takes out the trash or 50 cents for vacuuming, just things like that and at the end of the week he gets his "pay", but if he forgets to do a chore or refuses to he dosent get his "pay" i hope this helps
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