Wednesday, September 27, 2006

jobs

This week is our first week of having a job chart. It's on a large white dry erase board hanging up in the laundry area. Everyone has jobs. Some jobs are the same every day. Like Sam is responsible for plates every night at dinner. Alina's responsible for forks. Ed's responsible for drinks and I'm responsible for dinner. Other items include Sam picking up his toys in the living room twice a week. Both of them picking up the basement toys once a week (they have very few toys out as I rotate them every other week so there's not so much out at once). Alina putting away her markers and books twice a week. Mine is a bit more with the daily duties of laundry, vacuuming, cleaning the kitchen, etc. It's working quite well. Though I haven't been sticking to my jobs due to an inordinate amount of work coming in and lots and lots of phone calls for meals. But Sam asks daily what his job is for that day. Now the trick is to keep at it and not let them slide out of keeping up their jobs. Writing it out was the easy part. Doing it is the hard part!

7 comments:

Carbon said...

I've been thinking about just getting a small routine going every night with the kids, like toys away before bed. We'll see.

But I definitely like the idea of a chart up for weekly duties. Hope it works for ya.

Jean said...

It can't hurt. at least it would hurt your back less. :)

me too!! i just have to keep on myself to keep on the jobs.

anne said...

Way to go! I wish I could get my house on a chart like that...

Jean said...

maybe the kitties could have some jobs...like finding all their toys or just looking cute? :)

heather said...

this is a great idea! i loved having charts like this when i was little - i got really into it (hence my obsessive check lists now).

I love the idea of Anne's kitties having duties, too. I think they should have to look cute at least twice a day - maybe thrice.

keep us posted (anne and jean) how these are going!

anne said...

Well, since Iggy is losing points, the others have had to work extra hard at that cute thing. Luckily, there is a kitten around to pick up all the slack.

Jean said...

Oh Iggy.