The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Chores: A Funny Picture Book About Responsibility and Helping at Home for Kids (Ages 4-8)

Great Berenstain bears book, even though my child tells me they don't need to read this book because they do all their chores! LOL!!!!

I love this story. I noticed that when my cousins kids leave our house they never pick up their toys and run for the door. Their grandma picks things up. Reading these books help a lot. Not perfect yet but it’s getting better often

Stan & Jan Berenstain's classic Berenstain Bears stories were personal favorites throughout my childhood, and now I use them often, whether for reading to young children or for teaching English to older children and adults. Not only are they beautifully illustrated, consistently humorous, and full of educational content. They also teach morals and provide guidelines for social interaction in a way that's neither patronizing, nor puerile, nor pedantic. 'The Trouble With Chores' specifically addresses the problems most of us have managing our time with respect to menial tasks, but focuses on a family approach to such an issue. Note that this book was published in 2005, fairly late in the Bears series when the family includes Honey bear, the baby sister of Brother and Sister bear (just in case you've already read some Berenstain Bear books and do not wish to be surprised by this addition).

I love all the Berenstein Bears books. They can provide a good starting point for a conversation with your child. Don't look to these books for answers on how to handle a problem. They aren't meant for that. In this one, we see what happens when Mama gets tired of everyone else avoiding their chores, so she avoids hers, too. Once the others see what the house is like, they start to pitch in to help. This book started a good discussion between me and my 7 year old about what chores are and why we should do them. We talked about Mama Bear's feelings when Papa and the cubs didn't do their chores. We also talked about what happened to the tree house when Mama quit doing her chores and how that made everyone else feel. These are great books for reading anytime and are easy for my child to read alone and understand.

I ordered this book in hopes that my boys (5yr & 2yr) would learn good wholesome family values about doing their chores and helping around the house while incorporating these values into their daily lives. I like the Berenstain Bears because they are short books so they keep their attention and shows illustrations of what the chores are. My 5yr old has really soaked these books in and not only enjoys reading the Berenstain Bears books (which is a great tool teaching him how to read) but implements them into each day. Love all the Berenstain Bears books.

As with all Berenstain Bear books, always a lesson to learn.

Great kids seris with a more biblical world view. Sometimes when the books talk about God, the theology is kind of iffy in my opinion, but i like that i don't have to worry much about progressive ideas being fed to my kids. My kids love reading and collecting these books.

As with most Berenstein Bear books, it teaches children important lessons. The lessons here are that one person shouldn't have to do all the work to keep up a house because it's too much, and also, if the house is not kept up it becomes very unpleasant to live in - both great lessons! As always, it was colorful and had cute illustrations too! Perfect for young children and middle-school aged children too!

Looked like a mint condition book, sold as new

At first I received a copy of this book that had not printed correctly. When I address that issue with the seller, he sent me rapidly, without any argue, another version that was perfectly printed. Thank you!

Queste serie dei Berenstain Bears è fantastica. Con umorismo insegnano le cose principali si bimbi. Molto amato dai miei bimbi!!!

Really good book. The kids like the series and I grew up on them as well. It's simple, but they always have a great message and well thought out problem solving.

He loves these books, one of his favs.