Some adults says that children do not have to do housekeeping and other adults allege that they should help doing housekeeping.  In my opinion, children had better help their family members do housekeeping for the help of their parents, to reduce their task.  It is because the experience will be useful for them to live for themselves in the future.  But I do not think they should spend on doing housekeeping as the cost of other important things.

 

  Doing housekeeping, children will acquire the essential skill of taking care of themselves.  They will be able to remember some basic recipes such as flied egg, omelets, spagetti, to acquire the operation of laundry, and learn to vacuum their room in the shortest time,  which experience does not only expand the range of their hobby, cooking, but also help them live for themselves in the future.  Without these fundamental knowledge of housekeeping,  they will be perplexed when  starting to live alone, like what I was about five years ago.

 

  Although housekeeping should be done by children, I do not think they should take priority to do housekeeping over to studying and playing with other children, which are more important things.  It is because they have to learn many things through the study at school and playing with others.  In my experience, the skills of housekeeping can be acquired after they are grown up and feel necessity of taking care of themselves.  But there are some important things that children would take pains to acquire after their growth.  However, I think that children, especially infants or elementary school students have enough time to do both studying, playing, and doing housekeeping.  I do not insist on their using long time to preparing the whole family's dinner or cleaning all the rooms at the house completely.  With spending about half an hour on washing dishes or bathtub everyday as a helper of their parents who might be busy or exhausted by their daily works.

 

 As I mentioned earlier, children should do housekeeping to help adults and acquire their fundamental skills for living by themselves. However, since they have many things to acquire in childhood, they should not sacrifice their precious times by spending too long time on doing housekeeping.