Chores are a necessary part of life that nobody can evade. Whether it’s grocery shopping, cleaning, laundry or other necessary tasks, there’s no doubt that chores can consume a lot of your time. If ...

CONNECTICUT (WTNH) — Household chores are an essential part of a functional, healthy home. But sometimes those chores can get overwhelming, making some families rethink the way that they approach them ...

Andrew Adesman, a developmental pediatrician at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra University, has a confession to make. Although he has published two scientific studies of the ability of ...

Dear Amy: My husband and I have a bright, high-functioning 16-year-old daughter. I have been teaching her how to perform basic household chores (I do the same with our 12-year-old son), and some basic ...

A 2019 study published in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics found that performing household chores was associated with improved social skills, academic abilities, and life ...

Teaching kids how to do chores and assigning them responsibilities around the house can help promote better well-being, emotional regulation, social skills, and self-discipline, yet not all parents ...

As we venture into 2025, we may be thinking about ways to improve our lives in the new year. New year’s resolutions are easy to make, but also easy to break. But what if there were ways to improve the ...

Psychologists' views on chores have changed over the years. We used to believe that chores were best taught through a method introduced to us by behavioral scientists: Assign age-appropriate tasks to ...