Should Kids Do Chores?

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March 17, 2025, 4:00 PM

• •A new study suggests that kids who do chores are more likely to feel accomplished and competent.
• •Chores can also help kids develop fine motor skills, gross motor skills, language skills, and social negotiation skills.
• •It's important to find ways to make chores fun and rewarding for kids.

Kids who do chores report feeling accomplished and competent, not to mention happy. A pediatrician investigated this question in a recent study and found that children who were doing chores often, or very often, as the survey asked, were more likely to have a sense of capability or more of a sense of being able to do things in the future than children who were doing chores rarely or never.

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