I'm choosing this week's theme challenge partly out of my own personal selfishness. I want some help in this area! Here is the theme: Helping With Chores.
You can be as creative as you please with this theme; things I am personally hoping for are examples of chores that are age appropriate for any age group (what have you successfully enlisted your two year old to do? your four year old? your six year old?). I would also like ideas that have helped make chores (or anything, really) work better in your household. For example, when I ask my nearly five year old to get dressed in the morning, I can ask six times and it still won't happen. However, I have noticed in the last week that if I ask him if he can get himself dressed in under two minutes starting NOW, he can get dressed faster than I ever imagined possible.
So here's your chance to experiment, try and fail, try and succeed, and come up with anything that will help your children either be more excited to do chores, or at least be willing to do chores (can you think of a different word for chores that doesn't sound so, well, chorish?). I'm also kind of tired of picking up after my kids. What have you done to successfully encourage your children to clean up after themselves? Any ideas, thoughts, "helping" charts, or even tangents that only partially have to do with this theme are welcome!
You can be as creative as you please with this theme; things I am personally hoping for are examples of chores that are age appropriate for any age group (what have you successfully enlisted your two year old to do? your four year old? your six year old?). I would also like ideas that have helped make chores (or anything, really) work better in your household. For example, when I ask my nearly five year old to get dressed in the morning, I can ask six times and it still won't happen. However, I have noticed in the last week that if I ask him if he can get himself dressed in under two minutes starting NOW, he can get dressed faster than I ever imagined possible.
So here's your chance to experiment, try and fail, try and succeed, and come up with anything that will help your children either be more excited to do chores, or at least be willing to do chores (can you think of a different word for chores that doesn't sound so, well, chorish?). I'm also kind of tired of picking up after my kids. What have you done to successfully encourage your children to clean up after themselves? Any ideas, thoughts, "helping" charts, or even tangents that only partially have to do with this theme are welcome!
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