On: How to Get Kids to Do Chores: Does the Maya Method...

[EGreg]

Inception! And reverse psychology

Make the child observe for a long time without allowing them to do it.

Children naturally want to imitate and begiin to master tasks. So this is how you make them WANT to do it.

[PhilWright → EGreg]

Odd, because my 9 year old never wants to pick up his clothes even though his parents always do. When does this imitation kick in?

[dsamarin → PhilWright]

It's probably too late now to make it easy. At that age, I wasn't particularly inspired to do things my parents didn't enjoy doing. This article[0] suggests it's around 1-3 years old (toddlers).

[0]: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/09/6169288...