Choring Chores

Chore time can be a difficult time with kids. To try to set up a system and get everyone to help out, you can try this helpful tip.

Set up a decorated can or box that is filled with daily tasks that need to get done.

Items might include washing dishes, sweeping the floor, cleaning the tub/sink in the bathroom, folding clothes, loading the dishwasher, etc.

Write these tasks on little slips of paper and drop into the can/box that you created.

Now each morning everyone pulls a task from the box and has until bed time to complete it. When the task is done, place it back in the box and give each person who completed their task a gold star on the calendar.

You can set up so that each star equals an amount of points and when certain point levels are reached then prizes are awarded.

Once you get everyone is used to helping out, you can increase the number of slips that each person gets each day.

Eventually you will have all the help that you need around the house.