Do chores make kids nicer?

家务能让孩子们变得更和善吗?

Round Table China

2026-03-24

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Parenting advice often focuses on grades, extracurriculars, or screen time. But new research drawing on data from over 50,000 teenagers across 15 countries suggests something simple may also matter: household chores. Researchers are exploring how families share responsibilities influences whether children bully their peers(16:21). / Can eating well be bad for you? On the show: Niu Honglin, Steve & Fei Fei
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  • Discussion keeps the world turning.

  • This is Roundtable.

  • You're listening to Roundtable.

  • I'm Niu Honglin, joined by Steve and Defeifei.

  • Coming up soon, we still focus on kids' development,

  • but from another perspective, from within the family.

  • Parenting advice often focuses on grades, extracurricular activities, or screen time.

  • But new research drawing on a large international data set suggests something surprisingly simple

  • might also matter, household chores.

  • By analyzing responses from over 50,000 teenagers across 15 countries,

  • researchers are exploring whether the way families share responsibilities at home

  • might influence how children behave socially.

  • Including whether they bully their peers.

  • Stay with Roundtable to find out the details.

  • And people say you are what you eat,

  • so we aim to eat better, more vegetables, fewer processed foods, less sugar, less fat.

  • And those messages have helped many people build healthier habits.

  • But somewhere along the way, the idea of eating clean has taken on a life of its own.

  • Effort to care for our bodies can sometimes become an obsession.

  • Is eating clean always, always good for you?