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When do you do housework?
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I do a little everyday. My 9YO and 5YO have their own chores, my 3YO and 2YO do not have formal chores yet.
I really love the Chore Charts on http://www.motivatedmoms.com. It’s a nice checklist that’s already done for you. Well worth the $8 investment, in my opinion (and you can’t lose for $4, which is what the chart is now). I hang it on my fridge and anyone can see, at a glance, what needs to be done. (Of course the only one who checks it at this time is me, but that’s something we’ll work on).
i’m trying this right now.
it has done the thinking (which i don’t have time for) for me! yeah!
i do pray this will work.
jo
If you just need a list to get you going, there are a couple of options out there to help…
You could try www.flylady.com – she helps you setup a daily routine, and rotate areas to do more cleaning.
Or you could check out Managers of their Chores – which helps you figure out what you want done when, and helps you setup a system for chores for the whole family to do them.
And there are other systems out there too…
I use Motivated Moms too and just a little extra tip…..I highlight jobs with different colors for each of my kids. I shouldn’t need to do all the work
!Heather
****I use Motivated Moms too and just a little extra tip…..I highlight jobs with different colors for each of my kids. I shouldn’t need to do all the work !****
Great idea!!!
If I was to name my dustbunnies Id be better of numbering them. It would be impossible to think of that many names!!
I have no advice to give but am taking in all given!
Love the highlighter idea,
I have our family schedule up and each child is in a different color, now I need to look for highlighters in their colors!
We made a list of everything that needs to be done each week then I split them with 5 chilren based on age. So every day thay have 1 main chore to do 1st thing in the morning. Then they have “area” clean up which is if I need the living room done it’s this team, the upstairs it’s this team (teams are 2-3 people working together). They also have a specific meal chore – one is wash table counters, one is fill dishwasher, one is empty dishwasher and one is vacuum after dinner. They also each have a “as needed” chore those are things like wash kitchen chairs (you know where the little ones constantly feel the need to grab with PB all over there hands), empty kitchen trash, etc.
Yes even my 2 yr old dd helps me. She is almost better than her older brothers sometimes? ! LOL
Could you all post some links to things you use. Like Motivated Moms, etc. Thanks
As one other mom said I don’t function in a messy house. Dust doesn’t bother me at all but stuff drives my brain batty!
I need simple and have trouble sticking with schedules. It’s easier now that my kids are 12 and 9…they do almost all the weekly cleaning…so it does get easier!!! We just have Sat. morning as cleaning day and do ALL weekly chores on that day. If we’ll be gone, we make it Thur. or Fri. One child dusts and vacuums upstairs, one does downstairs. Ea. of them clean a bathroom. On cleans the floors, one brings sm. garbages to kitchen. For our family of 4, that keeps everything clean enough for me…except my floor could use a mid-week clean. Oh, and ea. morning ea. child immediately takes care of their bed/getting dressed/dog duty.
As for regular pick-up, everyone is supposed to pick up after their own messes. If a toy/garbage is left out the child has to walk it to it’s proper place his/her age (so 9yo walks toy to proper place 9 times). I also keep a storage table on the main floor with drawers for ea. child to place things that go upstairs. JUst what works for us:) Gina
Also keep in mind that when there are toddlers around the house will never be completely clean 😉 I remember I’d clean a room, turn around and poof the room was back to how it was before =)
This is an old post but I just wanted to thank those of you who mentioned Motivated Moms. I love it and there’s an app too which is so easy and convenient! Thanks!
Dana, I’m glad you bumped up this thread. I just reread some of the posts. Some made me feel better, and some just reminded me that I sometimes feel very inadequate in this area. So, what to do about that?
I seem to be in such a period of struggle with my children (11, 12, 13), especially since 12yo ds has autism and is just full of anger and aggression. It disrupts the whole family’s joy and peace. And we’ve gotten way off any routines we had since my dad was hospitalized at the beginning of the month. (He’s been home for a week now, but needs help like driving places and organizing his medicine, etc.) DS is very objectionable to doing schoolwork right now, he is angry about not living with his dad, and all of the kids seem rather short-tempered. This is making it hard to get much done during the day. If I keep up with laundry and manage to cook meals, that’s about it.
My concern these past months has been whether I am adequately training my children to properly maintain a clean, tidy, functionaly household or if I am training them to be lazy slobs. If it’s only a season we’re going through, this will resolve itself. If it prolongs itself, well…..I’m not sure what the effect will be!
I have been wondering exactly this same thing – how DO you all do the cleaning?? I just have one 3yo DD right now (well, also a 14yo DSD, but that’s another story entirely…she’s not much help in the chore area…). Anyway, soon after DD turned 3, I started her having regular chores each day. Now, it’s only 3 a day, and they’re very simple chores – make bed, feed cat, clean up toys, help sort laundry, etc. Everyday there’s make bed and feed cat, so she can always expect the 2 same things, and I still have to help her but soon enough she’ll be independent.
Then, I throw in something different for a third chore. A favorite so far is cleaning the doors with Lysol wipes. I still have to help her, but it does have to be done, right? as she gets older, I figure we’ll keep teaching her more chores, and she will be expected to do more and more of them.
Oh right, when do *I* do cleaning? I stink at cleaning. No seriously, I was never taught how, and sadly my mom never expected me to either. so now, as an adult, I am completely overwhelmed with what to do, how to do it, and when to do it. I had to go and make myself a chore chart – seriously. It’s just handwritten, but I worked it out with my work schedule, and I try to stick to them. Even with that I’m not 100%. I honestly had to start making myself make the bed each morning (it’s a big one for hubby). Then each day has a different midday chore – toilets/mirrors/wastebaskets, or clean kitchen appliances, or dust, etc. One of the days that I work outside the home, my ‘chore’ is simply to clean the kitchen windows. That’s it.
Luckily, neither of us have to live in a spotless home; however, I really have to do much better about the dirt AND the clutter. But I do also realize that in this season of life, it’s important for me to teach my DD to do her chores, and that in itself is a chore for me!
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