So this is something that I would like to get your input on.
On our homestead everyone has to chip in for our homestead to work. Every one has different jobs they have to do. The older you are the more complex and harder the job is.
For example my 17 year old and 16 year old daughters help their mother with washing the cloths. They may also be required to help me with cutting wood their job in that is to stack it up. Now with my two youngest coming in at 9 years old and 10 years old they have to go and feed and water the animals, and collect eggs when we have them. Then there is my 14 year old son his job is to go around and help me with what ever I am doing. Sounds like fun right? Well I don’t think he feels like that all the time. But one of his jobs that he does do is splitting wood. Now why would I have him splitting wood? Well because he said that he really likes it for some reason. I guess it’s like when people say that they just really enjoy cutting the grass. But any ways after that we all have to come together and pump water into 5 gallon jugs from the well. We will then use that water to water the animals again the next day.
The reason I am telling you all this is because we have done videos in the past on our Youtube channel. The videos showed our kids doing different chores that they are expected to do on a typical day. We have gotten all kinds of comments on our channel. We have had people tell us that we were bad parents because we made our children work. We have been told that kids should not work like that because they are kids. They should be playing because they have the rest of their adult life to work. My response to that was: well if you don’t train them to work for what they want in life, then what makes you think that they will want to work for it as an adult. I have even been told that having my 14 year old son work a splitting mal was child endangerment! We were told by that same person that 14 is way to young to operate such a dangerous tool. I think that as you can see 14 is old enough to work a hand held splitting mal.
But I want to know what you think. Is it a bad thing to have your children do daily chores? Also how old would you say is a good age to start having your children do chores?
