Teens can help their working parents more often than they seem to these days. Years ago the teenager would be in charge of their younger siblings while their parents went to work, but the times have changed! Today there are fewer teens being left home alone with their siblings, but there are still other ways your teens can help out the working parent in the house.
Today we wanted to feature some options and ideas to have your teen start helping the working parent in the house more often. This can help establish a stronger team family mentality and strengthen some life skills that your teen needs to develop before they leave home for their adult life.
Cook Dinner
Your teen can easily plan and cook dinner. Try to develop a meal plan with your teen during your day off. This will ensure that you and the teen can cook dinner. Having a meal plan created that the teens and parents can cook will establish a more regular routine for dinner when there are working parents in the home.
Babysit
Whether you pay your teen or simply require that they babysit their younger siblings, you can easily have your teen babysit. This is the perfect way to help your teen establish some more responsibility and allow the siblings a little time to bond with their older sibling! This will also allow you to save some cash on daycare centers and babysitters that can cost much more than a teen being hired to watch their siblings.
Clean the House
Another way teens can help their working parent is to clean the house. The teens in the home can easily delegate simple chores to the younger siblings while they take on the task of doing the harder chores. This is some the teens can take charge of so that their working parent can focus on other areas in the household, such as getting the budget balanced and ensure everything in the adult world is running smoothly.
These are just a few simple ways teens can help their working parent. We hope that you’ll use this list as a means to start getting your teens more involved in making the household run smoother. Your teens are old enough and mature enough to assist around the home so that the family unit runs a bit smoother without chaos or stress.