Kids and chores

[angel22]

Which is your process and what do you think it teaches your children about the chore process?

[bunsy]

I voted Other which means "It depends".
Some chores I left as they did it.
Others I helped them to "fix" the result.
Some times it was important that the learn the right way to do something or what the expectations were. Other times what they did was good enough and the final result didn't really matter.

[angel22]

I'm mostly a make them do it and leave their results type. I want them to be proud of the job they did and not get discouraged that they did it "wrong." I do make them do things over sometimes, but I don't redo their work in front of them.

[irish]

Right now DS's only chore is to clean up after himself, and he actually does an excellent job! I never have to fix it.

[sharon]

I'm in the "It depends" camp with Bunsy. If he truly did his best then I would leave it, or fix it when he wasn't around if I felt I really needed to fix it. If I know he can do better (and he wasn't trying b/c he wanted to be doing something else, or just wanted to be done), I would gently require him to fix it himself.
Also, expectations change with age. So when Ian was 2 or 3 and helped set the table, if he got the things really anywhere near where they were supposed to be, it was fine. Now that he is 7 and knows how, I expect the table to look nice when he is done.
He makes a bed far better than me actually. So maybe he could fix mine

[bumblebee23]

The boys do their chores and I pretty much leave it alone. I try to go through once every so often with them and help do a deep cleaning but other than that if they tell me they are done I will look and show them what they forgot or still needs to get done.

[apryllraye87]

DS doesn't do many chores right now. When he cleans his room I will leave it the way he has it. It's hard for me not to 'fix' it because I am so OCD about the way things are cleaned. I will go in after him and ask him to pick up other things or clean out under his bed, etc.