Two more weeks! Two more weeks! Two more weeks and school is over for the year! I LOVE summer! I love having all of my kiddos home all day! Last summer, I was a little scared. It was the first summer of this slob-recovery-thing, and although I couldn't wait to have the kids home, I was petrified that I would lose any momentum I had … [Read more...]
Daily Checklist/Chore Chart for Kids – Now With a Printable Version
It's officially Back to School time. Moms everywhere are taking a deep breath and resolving to be more organized and teach their kids to be responsible. How do I know this? The number of people finding me by searching for "Kids Chore Charts" or "Daily Checklist for Kids" has at least quadrupled. So, since I'm working on my "Get Started!" … [Read more...]
Meeting Resistance . . . From Myself
Today has been a nice summer day. We're planning to go to Six Flags tomorrow, so the plan for the week was to go ahead and get mopping and vacuuming done today. Buuutttt, this morning was so pleasant. We had great breakfast conversation, then the kids were off playing, totally occupied, and I was enjoying cleaning up the kitchen on my own. … [Read more...]
Teaching My Children to Clean Bathrooms
Today is the first Tuesday of the summer. Tuesday is the day I clean bathrooms. So . . . today was the day I taught my kids to clean the bathrooms. Overall, it went quite well. I was prepared. I had their supply baskets ready to go, complete with home-made kid-friendly cleaning products. I had the bathroom cleaning checklists printed … [Read more...]
Bathroom Cleaning Checklist for the Kids
I shared on Monday that I'm determined to not let our home slip back into total chaos over the wonderfully-routine-free-summer. Part of that focus includes creating this printable, super-detailed bathroom cleaning checklist that can be used by kids (or adults, like me, who need a little help with focus!). When I was a teenager, from 16-18, I … [Read more...]
Kids’ Daily Checklist – Chore Chart
It has now been 5 ½ weeks since we started using this chore chart with my 6 and 8 year old children, both boys. If you are a regular reader, you know how much chore charts/checklists for my kids scared me. It wasn’t that I didn’t think my kids could do it. It wasn’t that I couldn’t find one with age appropriate chores. It was me. Any system … [Read more...]