Recently, while reading Managers of Their Homes, a light dawned – my kids were capable of much more advanced and regular chores than I had currently been imposing! Without further ado, I wrote out a weekly chore list – one for each boy per weekday morning, and imposed nightly after-dinner chores. How the boys feel about this I can’t say (actually, I can say that Judah, for one, is very excited, and frequently wants to know what his chore is before he’s even finished breakfast!) but the result has been delightful for me. There is a negative, in that supervising children doing chores can be a hassle, but the positive is that every morning I come out to a cleaned and wiped table and a freshly vacuumed dining room floor, and several chores are happening much more regularly than they had been before. (cleaning the sliding glass door, for instance – don’t even remember the last time I did that before Judah started doing it regularly..)
Anyway, thanks to Managers of their Homes for alerting me to my kids unrecognized abilities!
What is Managers of their Homes? Is it a book or a magazine or what?
Check it out here, Bethany: http://www.titus2.com/
Alice Barnard really likes it – it's a how-to book about scheduling for homeschooling families.