Do you encourage your children to help out with age appropriate chores around the house?

This is a topic I have seen raised a number of times recently, and from what I have seen it has been mostly received with a lot of positivity, but I have also seen a few negative comments thrown around.

It got me thinking, do most parents encourage their children to help around the house, and if so, what kind of chores do they do and from what age?

I often get asked what inspired me to start Monkey Tree - so this is our story (so far!)..

I'm a Melbourne girl through and through but in 2015 my husband got a new job and we made the move to a small country town in the Snowy Mountains, NSW called Cooma. I had only ever driven through Cooma once - I had no idea what I was in for!