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QUESTION: At what age did your kids start helping with the laundry?

“My kids fold and put up their laundry, make their beds including putting on the sheets and stripping when it’s laundry time, and also take their laundry downstairs. They’ve been doing this since they were 5. They helped sort and fold and put things up at around 3 - 4, too."

Laura Williams Lewis

“My 2 year old throws his dirty laundry — and any other laundry he finds laying around — down the stairs. My 12 and 10 year olds get their piles of laundry and have to put it away. I barely let my husband do the laundry let alone my kids. They will switch it over for me, but that's about it." “My kids started at 9/10. I worked two jobs, and they wanted to learn. I taught them how. They did an excellent job. Learning something like this entails cleaning up after oneself, too. They got it. They're 40/41 now."

Cris Jordan

“Eleven by himself. Still working on learning the washer, but he can switch loads, start the dryer and fold laundry for me."

Kelsey Fortman

“Age 3. By age 11, both kids began doing their own laundry, start to finish. I’m so proud of them! They are 16 and 19 and have continued ever since!"

Enjoy all of what the zoo offers including rides, animal encounters and giraffe feedings. To top it off, new blooms are popping up all over the garden! Learn about all of the happenings taking place at the zoo this month and more at cincinnatizoo.org.

You have until Friday, April 15 to enter to win! Head to cincinnatifamilymagazine.com and click the "Contests" tab for your chance to win. Good luck!

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Will, photographed by Sienna Photography on location.

Laura Young

“As soon as they could reach the knobs. When I was eight months pregnant with full size twins (and being five feet tall) I told my son he was on his own for laundry. He has been doing his own since he was 8. I paid him the first two years; by 10 it's an expectation."

Katie Wright

“Age 2 - 3. They'd throw clothes in the washer dryer. As they got taller, they'd push buttons and pour in soap. Now, they'll carry baskets up and downstairs. They're 8 & 10 and will be learning to do their own laundry soon."

Christina Hubbard

“40."

Heidi Gebing Natalie Baxter

“10 with supervision and 12 by themselves."

Julie Rom

“They help folding and putting away at age 5 and were fully responsible by age 8. I will wash and dry, but they gotta put it away."

Heather Ford

“My 5 year old took interest at 3, but she's just now started being actually helpful. She knows how to fold her laundry, items that go in her dresser, and she knows how to put clothes on hangers. After she does that, she goes and puts them away."

Jackie Phipps