Start them Young

In most household, children are encourage to do some chores like to clean up after themselves, take of themselves like folding their own laundry, cleaning up their room, etc. How early can you start these kind of activities? I guess the earlier the better. 

Here's my daughter trying to clean up but seems to be getting so distracted.

 

Here's my nephew cleaning up and my sister encouraging him by giving him the dust pan. 

My sister is a tougher taskmaster than me. Wiping the floor does not seem enough, my cute nephew has to wipe the sofa too. 

When do we realize that its too early though? I guess when it doesn't work like when my nephew is trying to help tidy up by putting things in the closet but when he tried to close the closet and he can't, he took out some things only to remember I guess that he wanted to put stuff in the closet in the first place. 

Let our children help even if they are not yet that helpful or it's quicker to just do things ourselves. Think of the long term benefit of spending the time to help them learn how to help out around the house.