Age Appropriate Chores And House Work, in your opinion what is enough Options

[depressed lonely...]

In your opinion what is a reasonable amout of house work for a child or tenager to do.
is it dependant on age and how much money there is in the family?
Do you think extra chores should result in extra pocket/spending money? And shoyld there be a base amount of household chores done by everyone which you don't get paid to do but which if you don't your pocket money should be docked?


all this is brought up by the fact that my siblings(age 10 and14) do no house hold chores don't go to school and don't have activitys or friends to visit, whereas my mother does house work in addition to going to work 1-3 days a week and I do alot (possibly more than mum cos I'm a neat freak) when I have TAFE 5 days a week.

To me it seem unfair that they sit around all day with nothing to do but sleep late eat and watch TV but they don't clean up the messes they make and they certainly don't do anything helpfull.

I consider this unreasonable and lazy.
My mother brings up the fact that they're only 10 and 14 but reality is I did more than kirk does at 10 than he does at 14.

I am as such trying to get an outside opinion on wheather expecting things like washing ,washing up, putting away, feeding the animals tidying comunal living areas assistance with preparing meals and cleaning their own rooms is too much to expect of people their age.

And if possible at what age you think a level of contribution is fair.

[oxym0ronical]

I had chores from the time I was about 5. We lived on a farm, my dad was working from sunup to sundown, and my mom worked at the hospital. When we were younger, we were basically just expected to keep our rooms cleaned and clean up after ourselves.

As we got older, we had to start pitching in a bit more. Wash the dishes, vacuum, etc. And, eventually, every animal we claimed, we had to feed, water, walk/let out, clean up after, and chase after, as it sometimes happened. We thought we were smart by not claiming *any* animal after that, but alas, it didn't work that way.

None of this ever resulted in bribery, allowances, or the like. We were expected to do it, and if we didn't, x was taken away for y amount of time, and we basically came home from school, did our chores, and went to our rooms for the rest of the night until we were more than willing to do what we were asked to do.