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Day 5/15 Chores


Day 5!!! Chores... Many of us don't enjoy doing chores, and our kids really don't like doing them. I have yet to figure out how to keep one of my kids from complaining about doing them- but he does them, just not quietly! And then there is my toddler, who will sing "It's a hard-knock life, for me. It's a hard-knock Instead of treated we get tricked, instead of kisses we get kicked." Every time I ask him to pick up toys or wipe something down. 
We do a little bit of chores everyday- I have broken our house down by days. Monday- Kitchen, and Seth Laundry day. Tuesday- Bathrooms. Wednesday- my laundry day, Dust, windows. Thursday- Upstairs, bedrooms and vacuuming, Mikayla laundry day. Friday-Anything we didn't get to, or can organize areas! Weekends are free of chores outside of our daily habits. You can pick one day, and do all of your chores, you can do a load of laundry everyday. It's up to you, biggest thing is to be consistent.
A way to help your kids to know who's day it is to do dishes, or vacuum, or however you want to assign chores, is something I learned from a dear friend of mine. You start by assigning each kid as odd or even. Birthdays are the easiest way to decide this, but if you have kids, like me with both odd birthdays, then you need to get creative. We decided to use letters in each name- and got an odd and an even!! Then when you need something done, or they want to sit in the front seat, or listen to music in the car- if it's an even day the kid assigned as even gets to do it!!! Takes away any fighting, and you don't have to remember who did it last. If you have more than two kids then think about assigning Even/Odd and Even/Even and Odd/Even Odd/Odd. Then have week 1 and 3 of the month odd and week 2 and 4 as even and then you can follow the date as even or odd. Write down your final outcomes if birthdays don't work so everyone remembers how you figured out who is who!
My cleaning bag! Easy for anyone to grab
and clean their area!


Finally, decide how you want to organize your cleaning supplies. I have a canister of wipes in every bathroom, and kitchen. Then I have a bag that can be moved from room to room with things like rags, window cleaner, dusting spray, toilet cleaner, granite cleaner... and I have it in my laundry room when not in use. I also carry an empty bag with me while I'm cleaning and use that to take things that don't belong in the room I'm cleaning. After I am done cleaning I empty the bag by putting all of the items back to their homes! 




Chore chart example!




Here is a google chore chart if you would like to make your own! https://docs.google.com/…/1bmRu877t2XLhzeKP3mMslyTikl…/edit…




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