My work here is done


Here are A. and D. They are busy with a project. Being concerned about the development and welfare of their younger siblings, they have decided we need a new household job system. I've had different systems for children doing work around the house for years, but just never got around to figuring out how to make it work in our new house. This concerned A., because she felt the younger people needed the character building having household jobs created. She's probably right.

So, this evening, she came up with a new way to make the household jobs work. Each morning, each child will draw for which daily job they will do. Each Saturday, they will draw for which bigger Saturday cleaning job they will do. She assures me this will be FUN! We have decided that people may trade jobs if both parties are agreeable to the change. Trading privileges will be revoked if whining and complaining results.

I said great, make it work, and that is what they did. A. is writing out a detailed list of what each job entails. D. is cutting the paper which lists each of the jobs in preparation for laminating them. They came up with them all on their own, I just helped suggest some of the jobs.

My little grasshoppers have learned well.

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