Giving every member of the family chores helps everyone feel that they’re contributing to the household, and having children in particular tackle chores can be particularly good for their development.

If you’ve already tried the old-fashioned way of simply trying to remember what your teenager needs to do and whether or not they’ve done it, you probably quickly realized that it was hard to keep ...

A week or so ago I offered my son $2 to shovel the front steps. (We have a lot of them.) It was late afternoon and I was staring down another hour of work, walking the dog and making dinner. Not only ...