Sunday, June 16, 2013

New chore chart

The summer brought a lazy unruly type attitude in the kids, and their old chore list wasn't working anymore. For 3 days I've been creating and fine tuning a brand new chore chart. The old one of giving them money for their piggy bank wasn't working. Ii got my life back!! Lol You know the one when I only worked early in the morning for about 2 hrs getting (instead of the whole day)!

For each chore they do, they get a ticket. After 50 tickets they get to go to a movie at the theatre. 45 they get an ice cream cone or buy something at the dollar store, after 20 they get 30 minutes free time to play on the iPad, etc. 

I also made a 'mind your manners' chart. If they do something on that chart, they lose a ticket or tickets. If you lie you lose 5 tickets!! That's almost half their chores for one day! I never would have guessed this would work so well. Now they pause and tell the truth. 

Then there are daily rotating chores like setting the table, sweeping, vacuuming clearing the table, etc. 






3 comments:

Kelly said...

awesome! i love it! we recently started a star chart for nicole for good behavior and helping around the house! Last week she earned cadance (pony) that she has been asking for. yesterday she asked me "mom can we go back to addy's house and play my little ponies" haha! good luck with your charts they look great! Such a good thing for kids!

Lucky said...

Also, love the charts and the incentives and the tickets you got! Very good ideas. I used to get little sparkly stars that you can stick to something. But if they would have thrown in chocolate or time with them, I would have had wings by now!!

Andy & Tori said...

I love your charts, and putting in the manner chart is a great idea. I would of never thought of that. You're very creative!