How to Get Kids to Do Chores: Does the Maya Method Work?

This isn’t Mayan “supermom” magic. Kids all over the world (including the US) do manual labor around the house/farm. Kids who don’t earn their keep are a relatively new invention.

(I’m probably the first child in my family line to not work growing up. Most Americans probably are not more than a generation or two removed from that.)

Except this concept appears to be about making chores fun for kids before they can even do those chores properly.

Which is clearly different than kids “earning their keep” which presumes they’re at an age that they can actually successfully and competently do those tasks.

But is it really critical to make chores feel fun for the kids?

By definition, chores are routine tasks, and it's natural for kids and adults to feel them as "not fun". I believe it's important to make kids realize that for the household to run successfully, we have to do them despite them being "not fun".