Do your children do household chores? Most people can hardly say 'yes'. Today's children aren't spending a day doing cleaning, laundry and other housework, lest forget about cooking. In the glacial realm of sociological change, that amounts to an awful go down. It also reflects important behavioural and values shifts in our lives that will affect lives for the youngsters for years to come. One consequence is never more obvious than at this time, when some of them move into their hostels, or some relatives’ house, either at home or abroad, and promptly begin in a mess. It suggests the shift may have longer-term implications on them for their married as well as career life while on job. Of course, most of our children aren't doing housework partly because they're spending more time on such worthy pursuits as reading and studying etc. Parents are doing less housework themselves, hiring domestic help. And clearly, some housework is best transferred to museums. Nevertheless, the role of housework in human relationships suggests we may be losing something of value here. While most parents today focus mostly on teaching kids self-reliance, keeping themselves clean, the benefits of learning housework run deeper. For example, plunging in at home has become a crucial marriage-preservation skill for young men. Though parents still assign more housework to girls than boys, yet these same young women hope as adults to find husbands who will help out. They hoped to share housework and child care with spouses in a committed, mutually supportive and egalitarian way. After controlling for other factors, marriages tend to be more stable when men participate more in domestic tasks. Housework has unique value in instilling a habit of serving others. Doing household chores as a child was a major, independent predictor of whether a person chose to do volunteer or other work as an adult. Thus for parents who value service, housework is an important teaching tool. If one enjoys a domestic art as an outlet for creativity or love, it's worth passing on. I usually work at home, cleaning laundry or other things but I'm sorry to say that my 14-year old daughter still doesn't know how. I lack time seriously to teach a home art me and my daughter both love, but I was looking for other avenues. One day I observed that keeping the family TV tuned to the food preparation programmes is worthy, and not only my daughter but my 4-year old son loves to watch the programmes. Maybe a good start and they may love cooking the skill I lack seriously. For other things to teach, regimentation maybe a requirement but not yet been an option for me.