Shared responsibility for household chores goes beyond being an obligation for our children. Collaborating with household chores can create independence, empathy, and even a sense of belonging. This is what we should encourage.

For some time now, my daughter Dariana has been taking on some chores around the house 🏡, simple ones to do but important for creating autonomy. She must learn to do things on her own. alone.

The beginning wasn't easy, because I didn't see it as a way to help out around the house, but rather as an obligation. This bothered her; she would object, or simply not do it. She was a bit lazy, but we were just starting out, so patience is the best. ally.

Over the years, because we have been implementing these shared tasks at home for a while 🏡, she does it without me telling her, that makes me happy because it adds to her daily habits, she tidies the room, with everything that entails, arranging the covers, sweeping the floors, organizing her shoes, picking up things that are in places where they shouldn't be, then she helps with the rest of the house 🏡, the basics, nothing that steals her childhood.

Since we installed tubs outside the house 🏡 to wash the dishes, she washes the dishes herself. Even if she's hungry and can prepare something simple, she does it, as long as she doesn't put herself in danger, such as having to use the stovetop.

I remember that as children we were raised differently. We were dependent on my grandmother who took care of us, on the lady who helped with the cleaning. My mother never encouraged us to do any chores around the house, so as we grew up it was difficult to adapt to independent adult life.

I don't want that for my daughter, although every family has different needs. Their way of raising children, they should have responsibilities at home. Not everything has to be mom or dad, they can also collaborate because it is the place where we spend most of our time, so we must take care of it in such a way that harmony is breathed.

Collaborating with household chores that are part of the daily routine should not be seen as favors or punishments because many children assume it as if it were penance, on the contrary, it is a way to activate the sense of belonging, to make the home hurt, to feel it, to want to see it clean and beautiful.

In many of these tasks, starting to do them together, such as folding clothes after washing, tidying up, is a good opportunity not only to strengthen the emotional bond between mother and daughter, but also to foster shared responsibility, and also to instill values by example.

My daughter is quite distracted, her day-to-day life is super relaxed, not very complicated, and she no longer sees these tasks as something imposed on her by her mother, but as a way of Collaborating, maintaining the home that shelters us every day, aside from the fact that it's a way for her to help me, among so many responsibilities I have during the day, it lightens my work a little more, and she's aware of that now. These habits aren't out of place, and over time they'll become more and more accepted without seeing them as an obligation. Homework continues to be part of the responsibilities we'll have in our lives.

La corresponsabilidad en los deberes del hogar va más allá de ser una obligación para nuestros hijos, colaborar con las tareas del hogar puede crear independencia, empatía, hasta sentido de pertenencia, es lo que debemos impulsar.

Mi hija Dariana desde hace algún tiempo asume algunas labores en casa 🏡, sencillas de realizar pero que son importantes para crear autonomía, ella debe aprender a realizar cosas por si sola.

El principio no fue fácil, porque no lo veía como una forma de colaborar en la casa, sino como una obligación, eso la molestaba, ponía peros, o simplemente no las hacía, era un poco indolente, pero estábamos comenzando, así que la paciencia es la mejor aliada.

Con los años, porque tenemos tiempo implementando estás tareas conpartidas en casa 🏡, lo hace sin que le diga, eso me hace feliz porque se suma a sus hábitos diarios, ella arregla la habitación, con todo lo que eso implica, acomodar los cobertores, barrer los pisos, organizar sus zapatos, recoger las cosas que estan en lugares donde no deben, después ayuda con el resto de la casa 🏡, lo básico, nada que le robe su niñez.

Desde que colocamos unas bañeras en el exterior de la casa 🏡 para lavar los platos, ella misma lava lo que utilizo después de comer. También si tiene hambre y puede prepararse algo sencillo lo hace, siempre que no se ponga en peligro, como tener que utilizar el fuego de la cocina.

Recuerdo que de pequeños nosotros fuimos educados de manera diferente, éramos dependientes de mi abuela que nos cuidaba, de la señora que ayudaba en la limpieza, mi mamá nunca nos motivó a realizar ninguna tarea en la casa, así que de grandes fue difícil adaptarnos a la vida de adultos independientes.

No quiero eso para mi hija, aunque cada familia tiene su forma de crianza, ella debe tener responsabilidades en el hogar, no todo tiene que ser mamá o papá, ella también puede colaborar porque es el lugar donde pasamos la mayor parte del tiempo, así que debemos cuidarlo de forma tal que se respire armonía.