The Loose Women panellists sparked a heated debated on social media after discussing how a parenting expert claimed children as young as 18 months old should be doing the chores and helping around the house.
It comes after Myleene Klass, 42, who has daughters Ava, 13, and Hero, 9, previously took to Twitter to share a sweet video of her son Apollo, who is 20 months of age, emptying the dishwasher on her social media.
But while Loose Women panellist Judi Love saw the topic as more of a gender debate and told how she encourages her son to pull his weight as much as her daughter, Kaye Adams, who has two daughters, said one is tidy while the other is messy – and put it down to personality differences.
However, viewers were left split, with one commenting: ‘Ridiculous, let toddlers be toddlers, get off your lazy a*** and do it yourself. Plenty of time to teach them to help.’
A second argued: ‘My toddler just comes an helps me without bein told to, he loves helping tidying up an putting things away.’
The Loose Women panellists sparked a heated debated on social media after discussing how a parenting expert claimed children as young as 18 months old should be doing the chores and helping around the house. Pictured, Myleene Klass’s son Apollo, 20 months, emptying the dishwasher
Some viewers were left impressed that Apollo (pictured) even knew where the utensils went
Taking to social media, one viewer penned: ‘Ridiculous, let toddlers be toddlers, get off your lazy a*** and do it yourself. Plenty of time to teach them to help’ (pictured)
Commenting on the video, Nadia Sawalha said: ‘Isn’t that the wonderful thing about toddlers. They just want to do what makes you happy. They just want to do what you’re doing. When you get to teens it’s a whole different story of course.
Jane added: ‘Maybe if you start them at that age they see it as a routine and always do it.’
But when Kaye Adams asked the panellists whether they consciously started their children on a routine of doing chores, the responses were mixed.
‘I’ve always kind of instructed the children around to fold your bed, tidy up the room,’ said Judi Love. ‘So my daughter is fantastic with that and my son – he’s around so many amazing and beautiful women – that I’m now very much conscious of saying to him, “son, you need to go and do this and need to go and do that.”
While Judi Love saw the topic as more of a gender debate and told how she encourages her son to pull his weight as much as her daughter, Kaye Adams, who has two daughters, said one is tidy while the other is messy – and put it down to personality differences. Pictured, presenters on today’s how
According to a poll carried out by the show, 53% of viewers said yes you should start toddlers young, while 47% disagreed – and social media users were just as divided (pictured)
I’m very much aware of making him pull his weight as much as his daughter so he knows it’s not like, “Oh the girls do that.”
She continued: ‘It’s not that he doesn’t at the moment but I remember a time I called him when I was away and he said, “Yeah I’m just playing on my game and waiting for my sister to make my food.”
I was like, “go downstairs and help her made your food.” It just made me think about him being around so many amazing women who panda to him. I don’t want him growing up feeling like, “oh yeah a woman does this, a woman does that.”
So he knows that and shows it. Sometimes I’ll come home and he’ll rub my face, he’ll make me a tea or you’ll see him wiping up. So I’m definitely onto him.’
Kaye went on to say how it’s funny that because Judi has a girl and a boy, she sees it as a gender thing.
‘I’ve got two girls. One is pretty tidy and does a lo of the cooking which is fantastic, while the other one takes after her aunty Nadia. So it’s not a gender thing with them, it’s a personality thing.’
Commenting on the video, Nadia Sawalha (pictured) said: ‘Isn’t that the wonderful thing about toddlers. They just want to do what makes you happy’
Judi Love (pictured) saw the topic as more of a gender debate and told how she encourages her son to pull his weight as much as her daughter
Jane added: ‘I was never made to do chores when I was a kid. I have no recollection of that and to be honest, I haven’t done it with my kids either.
Their room can be a mess, I’ll just close the door on it – I don’t care. What I don’t like is, my rule in the house is if you make the mess, I want you to clear it up. I don’t expect them to clear up my mess.’
Judi chimed in: ‘Oh I want them to clear up my mess because I’m paying for this house!’
According to a poll carried out by the show, 53% of viewers said yes you should start toddlers young, while 47% disagreed – and social media users were just as divided.
‘What is your secret?! Still can’t get mine to do that at 7 & 5!! Such a dude,’ wrote one, while a second commented: ‘Fantastic start them off early.’
A third penned: ‘This is the cutest video! What a little super star!!! I will have to show my boy this!’
However, another commented: ‘I bet he’s dropped a few plates in the process!’ and a fifth added: ‘When my kids were toddlers they loved doing chores. It was when they got older and discovered the outside, football and the PlayStation that it changed.’