On my chart, I saw that my mother did most of the different chores. My father did some too, but they were the ones that required more manual labor like car maintenance, mowing the lawn, shoveling the snow. However, he did help after dinner with cleaning the dishes.
My mother did most chores though. She packed the lunches, cooked the dinner, and picked up and dropped off the kids at school. My mother was more of a housewife. In a lot of my friends family's, their mom's worked so the kids did most of the chores. My mother was at home all day, she cleaned frequently so by the time my siblings and I got home from school everything was already done. The laundry was already folded all we had to do was put it in our drawers. The presents were already bought and packaged ready for the birthday party.
My mother didn't have us start doing more things until we got into high school. When I was a freshman, I remember her teaching me how to work the washing machine and showing me where the vacuum was located. My brother was out of college and my sister just starting, when I started high school. By the time I was in high school, my mother had picked up a preschool teacher job that she went to 4 times a week. She was still home by the time I got home, but my clothes were left for me to clean and my lunch was left for me to pack.
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