How can I encourage my kids to take greater responsibility for remembering to clean their rooms and do their other household chores?
You'll probably find that you use different approaches with different kids, depending on their ages, developmental stages, and temperaments.
Some kids are keenly motivated by activity incentives ("We'll play a game together once you finish organizing that pile of stuff on your bedroom floor") while others love charts and checklists (it generally works best if they design their own) and still others prefer to be given a "deadline" for the room cleaning assignment—and then breathing room to figure out how to meet that deadline (these are the kids who hate being micromanaged).
The key is to use your knowledge of your child, rather than falling back on "the one-size-fits-all" nagging approach (which isn't particularly effective anyway). Good luck!
