by Donna | Feb 22, 2016
One thing that makes it much easier for children to learn chores and household upkeep is for the children to work with you on developing systems. We as moms have a tendency to create the systems that we like in freezers, refrigerators, pantries, toy shelves, bookcases, kitchen cupboards, and more. And then when somebody comes in to do a chore or unload groceries or put something away, it is not done correctly. And we wonder why people keep messing up our systems!
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by Donna | Feb 18, 2016
For complete printable lists of chores your kindergartener can do on his own (and another list on chores he can do with help!), click on the links below!
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by Donna | Feb 16, 2016
This post is a continuation of the “Age Appropriate Chores Series”. You can read previous posts by clicking here.
Speaking of a sense of accomplishment and pride, we found it much more effective to actually give a child a certain chore, certain area, a certain jurisdiction rather than passing out chores each day, using a job jar, etc. What I mean by this is that we taught a child to do a chore completely, and that naturally became that child’s job.
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by Donna | Feb 10, 2016
For complete printable lists of chores your preschooler can do on his own (and another list on chores he can do with help!), click on the links below!
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by Donna | Feb 9, 2016
Once the training of the chore is completed, the fun part of actually having someone consistently and correctly do the job begins. This will work out much better if you have set up a certain protocol that is followed to be sure that the chores that you have taught are actually completed and completed when needed.
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