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Notes from our house on routines, chores, and getting kids to actually do things. Written by Jordan, the step-dad who built TaskAdoodles.
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Chores by age: what our three can actually do, and what I stopped expecting
A realistic chores-by-age list for 4 to 14, the jobs to stop expecting, and the four things that actually make it stick. Table included.
6 min readThe study says wait until 14 for the phone. Isla's had hers three years.
What the delay-the-smartphone study actually found, what three years with a phone in the house looked like, and the rules that kicked in at secondary.
5 min readBack to school, trying to get a routine going, and a lunchbox I'd rather not talk about
Start before school does, keep the list short, and stop being the family reminder. Written the night before Isla started secondary.