Chore Chart

Something I've been thinking about for awhile has been getting my kids to help more around the house.  They would grudgingly do the chores I asked them to do but I figured it would be better to have it more organized so they just knew what their chores were instead of me having to fight them on it all the time.  I created a dry erase chore chart through Heritage Makers, who I am a consultant for.  Here is what I did:

If you want one like this you can go to foreverstorybook.com.

I selected to have it come UV coated which makes it dry erase.  I put on chores like Dusting, vacuuming, taking out garbage etc.  On Saturday they each have a chore in the bathroom which we will rotate each week so they don't get stuck with the same one all the time.  For my youngest, I did simple chores he could help me with like folding the towels.  They also have daily chores they need to do which were: making their beds, putting away their backpacks, coat, and shoes after school, etc.

We are on the first day that we were home for them to do their chores and I didn't have to force any of them.  They came home asking where the things were they needed for their chores and got to it.  I am sure there will be bad days too but at least it is a start.

We let them decide if they wanted to earn basically fake money to use in a family store or a real allowance and they decided a real allowance.

I hope this continues to work and am glad I can erase the chores and redo the list as needed for whatever doesn't work.  This is similar to what we did as kids so I know it can work.

~Andrea