Neverending....chores!

I don't know about you, but in our house, it seems like I am stuck doing most of the work. Bon does a lot and does what he can. But the whining and moaning I get from the kids when I ask them to do something is beyond ridiculous!

So in an effort to teach responsibility, we sat down as a family and decided on what chores the kids could and should do.

During that brainstorm session, I was trying to figure out the best way to implement these chores. Aha! I had some little Halloween bucket thingys...they had a jack-o-lantern on it and a black cat....I picked four different spray paint colors I already had and put a couple of coats on to cover the Halloween. Then I took my trusty Silhouette (I finally hooked it up and used it and and now I'm in love, can you tell??) and put them on their buckets.

I also had a huge packet of popsicle sticks. I wrote the chores on both sides of the stick and each chore is on three sticks. So while it looks like they have a TON of chores to do from that picture, they really don't. :)

So once I get this going, I hope to have them do the ones that should be habits, like brushing their teeth, making their bed, picking up dirty clothes, done every day (obviously) and then they can pick at random another set number (5?) of chores to do. At the end of each day, they count up their chores and will put the same number of buttons in a different jar. Once the button jar gets so full, we will do something fun as a family.

I haven't decided where to hang these buckets yet. Probably in the laundry room somewhere.

I really hope this works.