Children aren't doing housework — here's why parents should give them chores

Four in five children don't do any housework, even though doing chores is proven to be one of the strongest predictors of success in life 

If there’s a chore you’d like your child to take responsibility for, practise it with them when there’s no time pressure.

Children seem to do fewer household chores than their counterparts of even a generation ago.

A US survey found that while 82% of adults did chores regularly when they were children, only 56% of them as parents make their own children do chores. And the published Growing Up in Ireland study has shown that around 80% of children don’t do any housework.