7:04 am March 18, 2009We
Around here, Saturdays are chore days. Each Saturday morning, the kids know that they have to complete their list of chores before moving on to the fun stuff (and the list of fun stuff options is growing now that the weather is warming!). The kids each have the same chores every week. They have them memorized. They do them in their usual order: most fun to least fun, saving the suckiest for last. Zoe — resident mother hen — likes to make lists of everyone’s chores, just to see that everyone is towing the line and equally unhappy, making sure that no one is trying to pull a fast one by claiming a chore is completed when in fact it is not. We have a white board for this purpose; so Zoe can make her lists and be as “in charge” as she can be.
Here is the white board from last Saturday:
Jachin usually breezes through his chores while Zoe can successfully drag hers out for hours and hours. In her defense, it does take longer to do a list of chores when you have to periodically pause to dance to Radio Disney, have a snack, count your hair bows, give snacks to your stuffed animals, sing in the mirror, dance some more… all the while checking the job board every five minutes to make sure everyone else is still doing their chores in a timely manner. It’s tiring, I’m sure.
Though Jachin is fast, it was Deacon who finished his list first:
He’s a real overachiever. This past Saturday was actually the first week his name made an appearance on the job board. No free rides for anyone. In this house, as soon as you turn two and a half months old, you have to start pulling your own weight.
Just a note: though the toilets got scrubbed in a timely manner, I’m not totally sure how well they were scrubbed (especially under the seats). Also, the dusting job in the piano room is a little questionable. If you come to my house, please just avoid these areas…
… it’s all in the name of teaching kids responsibility.
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He looks so strong, holding himself up like that. Does he work out? You could add it to his list.
Comment by Lisa Milton — March 18, 2009 @ 10:34 am
Look at him holding himself up. It’s been too long since I’ve seen him! My throat is still sore so as much I as I don’t want to, I’ll avoid you guys a little longer.
BTW, your bathroom is not that bad. You should’ve seen my truck stop of a toilet last week before I cleaned it, you’d be feeling fine about yours!
Comment by Aunt Sam — March 18, 2009 @ 12:06 pm
Tell Zoe good job with the chart. I’ve been neglecting making one for Byron and so he has had a few saturdays of no chores. Time to nip that in the bud! =)
Comment by Diana — March 19, 2009 @ 7:34 am
Zoe is a girl after my heart, making lists and doing 50 other things on top of the to-dos. Good girl.
Thank goodness she looks after her stuffed animals, who else would feed them?
Comment by Nerak — March 19, 2009 @ 7:43 am
Zoe sounds like my kind of gal – that’s exactly how I clean my house. And then when I’m finished I make a list of things I’ve already done just so I can cross them out.
Deacon is adorable too – what a little muscle man!
Comment by Heather — March 21, 2009 @ 5:33 pm
I need to do something like this with Julia. Right now her chores are CHORES? WHAT ARE CHORES?
Zoe sounds like a girl after my own heart. And Deacon is just precious! Aren’t you tempted to just kiss his face all day long? He’s just that cute.
Comment by Leslie — April 10, 2009 @ 10:59 am