They help do the laundry, help cook meals, help wash dishes. And they often do chores without being told. No gold stars or tie-ins to allowances needed.

Summer chores: DIY or outsource? How you decide what tasks to take on and what to delegate depends on several factors – cost and time involved, safety concerns and personal preference. After … ...

Getting kids to do chores can be a pain, but there are ways that might make it easier for kids and parents.

Here’s a list of chores that kids can do, by age group. But how do you make chores a natural part of kids’ lives instead of something they have to be bribed or threatened to do?

If you’re over 60 and still doing these household chores, people think you’re remarkably strong, but that doesn’t mean you ...

Make chores the fun activity of the day. Before I learned from the Maya moms, I would try to do all the chores — laundry, dishes, sweeping, cooking — while Rosy napped or was asleep for the night.

Children should do chores. Period. Besides the practical benefits of helping their parents, the reality is that children have psychological-developmental needs related to doing chores. It’s ...

'Instead of scrambling in the morning to find what you need for that day, you’ve taken a five-minute task off your plate for ...

On a Saturday if my kid wants to go somewhere, I like to have two chores I need to accomplish first -- one for me to do, one for him to do. Or maybe just one that we can do together.

Inspired by Maya families where kids happily pitch in, correspondent Michaeleen Doucleff tries to get her 2-year-old daughter to become a household helper.