Why doing chores in essential for children?

Maryam Tariq
2 min readJun 26, 2022

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Mostly parents believe that making children do house work is bad, while some of them think that making children do house work is not negotiable because “kids are kids after all.” According to some research, making children do house work is actually crucial . Let’s see why

According to the above statistics , we can see that parents always have the notion that their children shouldn’t be doing house work. Not because doing chores is bad for their health but for the child’s leisure. Parents don’t want children to learn through the hard way because they think it will disrupt the childs comfortable spot.

What actually happens with this kind of perspectives?.

The child will get more and more comfortable and eventually when they will become adults they will face problems. Most probably, the house will be the site of messiness.

Why children doing house work is essential?

Mostly, it helps the child to become a problem solver rather than becoming the problem himself. Moreover, they can create a strong bond with their family. The question comes that, “Are these the only benefits?” Well no, 75 year research study in Harvard university was done on this topic. Making children do house work, is not only crucial for their life skills but also has a very good effect on their health. House work is not something that parents should be biased about. Children doing house work improves problem solving abilities and gives them a site that they are a part of the family. Knowing that, they gain confidence, they become more and more competent. For a very negotiating point of view, it may put pressure on them because they have different subjects in which they are involved in but this will teach them to be organized, disciplined and how to handle tough situations. Most essentially, if they learn at early age, they don’t have to go through the hard way when they are adults. Some people say,

Running away from problems only increases the distance from the solution.

It’s easy to forge the mind when its young, but it is hard to unwind those hardcore neural pathways that are formed when you are an adult. Doing chores, makes the children endure the tough situations and even when they have an outburst, their parents can control and give them a valuable advice whereas, in other situations, to change your neural pathways will be even more irresistable.

In all, making children, teenagers doing house work is a complete choice of parents whether the parents wants the child to have an easy life filled with leisure, comfort and solace or if you want your child to grow up strong and extra skillsets that would be useful in life.

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Maryam Tariq
Maryam Tariq

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