Daily chores for early teen girls in agriarian medieval society

[AXJ]

I've got a girl, 13ish years old, growing up in an area that's more or less the equivalent of medieval French countryside. Her father is a peasant farmer and they live on a farm producing mostly wheat, and she has an older brother who helps her father on most of the day-to-day farmwork.

Obviously she'd be conscripted to help during harvest, but what would her normal, daily chores be? So far I've got:

cleaning
some laundry/mending clothes/darning
helping cook
fetching water

..what else?

[Locke]

Ordering around the farm boy, who always responds with "as you wish."

I may have gotten that somewhere.

She could be sent away to make her name as a maid until the next harvest. Or, she could be asked to mind the stove fires (there is a name for this, but I forget it), or the less-mentioned bit of medieval Europe, she could have been responsible for changing the chamberpots.

[Tundra]

Third time lucky. I was having trouble with NiH.

So, she has a mother?
I think she'd get the jobs like sweeping the (dirt) floor, if you want to get more specific about cleaning.
I'm also envisaging her being told to mind some of the local babies and children, especially as she'd be seen as more 'free' to do so since she doesn't have babies and children in her own family, and she's a little older and more responsible, and for practice for her own children later.

[MichaelB]

There's also crafts that she could need to do, like basketweaving: baskets are very important, and in medieval times I would presume they didn't last too long, so there would always be a market for strong woven baskets.

She would also possibly be given the role of household seamstress: darning clothes, fixing patches, and so on.

Scrubbing out the pots, while stereotypically the duty of the 'kitchen boy', might also be something she does; She'd need a handful of salt, sand or fine aggregate (i.e., gravel or tiny pebbles) and clean, tepid water (which can later be used elsewhere)... although come to think of it, most medieval farming houses didn't have metal pots. There would still be a need to scrub out earthenware or even cast iron pots, though.

I agree with Tundra that it's highly likely she'd take on babysitting roles within the community, and if she has younger siblings she might even be given responsibility for them.

[Tundra]

In her own house, it is unlikely that she would have a 'kitchen boy' or any servants at all. Unless she has more important work to do, she'd almost definitely be given care of her younger siblings (unless she had a younger sister just a few years younger than her).
I was coming back to say 'mending!'

I wonder if she'd be paid for any baby sitting work she does for other families (such as being paid in potatoes or something even if not money).

Tending the family vegetable plot would be a chore she might have. Milking or caring for any animals they have. Collecting eggs, if there are no younger siblings.

[WritersTear]

Here is a website that may help with background etc

http://historymedren.about.com/od/medievalchildren/a/child_intro_2.htm

everything else that popped up were online books and theses

[MichaelB]

I was going to mention ropemaking as well. Rope and string is very important in a wide range of applications, and somebody's going to have to make it.