I have 4 kids. And they all have chores. I have to repeat myself many,many times to get them to even acknowledge me when I ask them to do a chore. I came up with this system (after numerous systems have failed!) and it seems to be working. Sort of. Each child has a color and a small cup with their name. I wrote down different chores on each colored piece of wood. I decide what chores they need to do for the day and pop them in the right cup. When they are done , they hand me back the stick and when all sticks are out of the cup they get a star for the day. Enough stars and they get rewarded. But that is another blog post. It has been a few weeks of this system and it was going smoothly. Now they are getting bored.The newness has worn off, I guess. Now I have to think of something to get their attention again...
I did this system for the summer last year. This year my 18 month old has been getting to them and losing all the sticks and I couldn't get my kids to do them anymore anyway. I've now made a chart that I laminated and hooked a dry erase marker to and as they do stuff I mark it off. It's displayed in the middle of the house where everyone knows what each kids has accomplished and so do their friends. So far they're enjoying this one.
ReplyDeleteRemind me to tell you about my pom-pom system. I have been doing it the whole year and with my kids, it works!
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