Below you will see the chart that hangs on our fridge this week. It's a format I made up and each week I reprint another one with different dates and people for each job.
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Shared
Responsibilities (switched every 2 weeks): 10-25 to 11-8
Jesse
*Washing Dishes – Daily, Keep sink empty of dirty dishes, be available for
after meal cleanup
Savannah
*Sweeping Downstairs Carpet – Th, Sat, *Use Windex or natural spray to clean downstairs
bathroom sink and toilet – Fridays
Aaron*Sweeping
Upstairs Carpet – Th, Sat, *Use Windex or natural spray to clean upstairs
bathroom sink and toilet – Fridays
Travis
*Sweeping/Mopping Kitchen/Bathrooms – Th, Sat, *Clean Showers – Fri
Jaidyn *Take out trash bags to big brown can, and
help Nathan keep all floors clean.
Nathan *Keep
all toys off of downstairs floors and in toy boxes
*Older 4
kids, do your own laundry – you are responsible for having clean clothing.
Everyone:
*Throw away all
of your trash
*Rinse the dishes
you eat on, and put in the sink as soon as you are done eating
*Do NOT eat
anywhere other than the kitchen or the dining room table… these rules are
to keep our house free of bugs and mice! And the carpets clean.
*Keep your rooms clean: i.e., nothing on the floor,
beds made every morning, and everything in its place.
Warning:
The
shirking* of these responsibilities will result in the loss of privileges:
meaning time with friends, computer, TV, and anything else any of your parents
think is necessary.
REWARD
However, being responsible and doing your daily
work without reminder, will reward you with more freedom, more privileges, and
your $$ Allowance $$.
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Today I am hoping to inspire my kids further through a couple of different methods. I hope to imprint their memory with the importance of this issue through doing an activity together, and to remind them of the kinds of issues you have when you do not clean through the content of said activity. The chore chart above and the $2/week allowance has done more than all of the nagging I have done in my life to keep us on track. I am hungry for a new level of clean, and hope to inspire the kids towards it as well. I just googled "make your own crossword puzzle", came up with http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/CrissCrossSetupForm.asp , and had fun making this reminder!
Keeping the House Clean
Across
2. showers collect this every day
4. Mom washed the what this morning?
5. Keeping a house clean is a what on dirt?
6. Cleaning is
8. People didn't pick up their candy
11. Do you want to ? in the grimy shower?
12. Everything naturally turns to this
13. Let's keep our house
14. if this is everywhere, so are mites
Down
1. ALL what? need swept EVERY DAY
3. Mom picked up tons of ? stuff
7. Mom also did this
8. Will you get some this ?
9. toilets collect waste daily
10. is what Mom should have been doing
11. Do you want to sit on a ? toilet?
13. is what you get for doing a good job
17 of 19 words were placed into the puzzle.
Created by Puzzlemaker at
DiscoveryEducation.com
