{"id":2967,"date":"2017-08-24T13:59:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T18:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crayonstokeyboards.com\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2017-08-24T14:08:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T19:08:32","slug":"review-everyday-family-chore-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crayonstokeyboards.com\/?p=2967","title":{"rendered":"{Review} The Everyday Family Chore System"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nManaging my home has been a struggle for me with five young\u00a0children.\u00a0 At one point\u00a0I had\u00a0five kids five\u00a0& under.\u00a0 Now that the oldest is\u00a0nine and the youngest is almost four\u00a0it is still a daily struggle to keep up with five very active kids.\u00a0\u00a0Since we\u00a0homeschool, our children\u00a0are home more than children who go to a brick & mortar school.\u00a0 When The Everyday Family Chore System<\/a>\u00a0by Everyday Homemaking<\/strong><\/a> became available for me to review I thought this may be just what we need to get a good chore routine going!<\/p>\n

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The Everyday Family Chore System<\/a> is an 88 page e-book written to help us create a routine and lay a foundation for our children.\u00a0 One that will stay with them for years to come.<\/p>\n

The first section of the e-book talks about laying the foundation with four basic principles of laying the foundation including the how to train our children.<\/p>\n

Then information about how to implementing the plan follows in the second part. This includes a suggested life skills checklist with age appropriate chores for ages 2 through teens.\u00a0 I really liked the monthly rotation of chores on page 17 and we are using this rotation for our children. Using this rotation\u00a0is giving\u00a0our children the time needed to\u00a0learn the chores\u00a0to be able to complete them satisfactorily.\u00a0 There are also suggestions for when the children are older in the household.<\/p>\n

Part Three of the e-book is the actual chore system.\u00a0 This includes how-to-do-it cards, including blanks to create your own as some household\u00a0chores look different from family to family.\u00a0\u00a0I created my own chore\u00a0picture\u00a0cards so\u00a0the youngest two (5 & almost 4) had cards that they could understand.<\/p>\n

Our thoughts.\u00a0 So far this system is working for us.\u00a0It has a concrete time frame (one month) for the children to do a chore.\u00a0\u00a0More of a “fair” division so the children don’t think they are always the one to feed the\u00a0chickens or do the dishes.\u00a0 Also, easier for us as parents to remember who is supposed to do what and not try to remember who we had\u00a0do the chore the last time.\u00a0 I will be interested in seeing how this system continues to work for us four to six months down the road after our children have been able to rotate through some of the other chores.<\/p>\n

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