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Dear Holly,
If there is no time to do chores on a particular night, should we double up the next day? They have a different chore everyday.
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posted by Holly at 10:44 AM
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Well, it depends. If the chore is essential, like cleaning up the kitchen after supper, then it will have to be done, won't it? But if it's a non-essential, like the windows weren't cleaned during weekly cleanup, then it can wait.
You might run into problems though since your children have a different chore every day - Susie might argue with Johnny because she is stuck doing what he should have done last night!
I usually assign my kids the same chores for a year or half year. Then we change the following fall or spring. Not only does this cut down on bickering - because a particular person is responsible for a particular chore - but it also provides them with speed - a task learned and practiced over and over gives facility in doing it.
The only way to ensure that you do not have fights about these types of things is to post your chores for every day so all your children know who does what, and make sure the actual person responsible for that undone chore is the one who does it.
For me, I would find the variety in daily chores a bit difficult to manage. However, do what works for your family.
To make myself clear.One childs daily chore changes daily so that we can get all done every week. Example: Lily will clean a bathroom every week. Mon.-clean the tub,Tues.clean the counter tops and sink,Wed. clean the toilet. Friday clean the floors. I add other chores like this to their daily chores so we get most done by Sat. With the 7 children we can get quite a bit accomplished if I can just make it work smoothly. So if we miss a day it piles up.Hence the flaw.
Hhmmm - see your point!
One idea - maybe you could do your chores like this only '4' days a week, but have the time scheduled in for the 5th day anyway - that way, if Friday came and there were no chores left - it's free. But, if something wasn't done, there would be time for that. Think that might help?
Sometimes I do this with our school schedule - I 'book' a time on Friday and call it "Tidy Up" for the end of the week - then if something isn't finished, it's done then. if not, the weekend starts early!
I have a question for you! How do you find this way of scheduling chores - do you prefer it over a major weekly clean? It sounds like a neat way to do things in the summer especially when no one really wants to do big cleans... This is the flylady approach, isn't it?
I believe this approach can really work for my family. If we save all of this clean up for one day a week it NEVER all gets done. Especially my bedroom. SO I have already found that when Sat. comes I am less stressed because most of the work has been done. We can tidy up and finish up some things that are not on the chore charts and it doesn't take all day. And I'm not pushing the kids to finish.
The only thing is I get the bulk of kitchen duty since they have all their chores. I mainly just get after dinner help. Overall it seems to work. My older ones especially have responded to it.Ages 15 and 16.
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