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As mamas settle into the school year, we also work to get our kids back on track with their own household responsibilities.
Here’s my philosophy on chore charts:
Do whatever works.
Once it stops working, do something else that works.
Once that stops working, do something else that works.
Repeat as needed.
Here are a few options if you’re looking for chore charts for your kids:
FREE – The printable chore chart I created that we’ve used for several years now. We aren’t completely consistent, but it works well for us every time we re-focus.
FREE – MyJobChart This is an online chore chart for kids that allows you to set up incentive systems. It’s free, but that is my affiliate link (which means I make a little $ when you sign up after following my link).
Connie from Smockity Frocks came up with this paint chip chore system for her family of 10. It’s a little more work intensive to put together, but SO visually appealing!
Easy Peasy Chores – This printable chore system is a PDF Download. It’s fairly expensive, but is a VERY detailed system with lots of pictures that’s customizable.
--Nony
FYI, the link to Smockity Frock takes you to some other website. I do love that idea of using paint chips.
Sorry! It was my mistake!! Fixed now!
Hey Nony,
I was compelled to find out how paint chips played into chore charts and got a story about a 40 year old game of tag. Link Broken?
I’m sure Nony will fix it when she gets a free minute, but until she’s able to, here’s the real link for Smockity Frocks blog: http://www.smockityfrocks.com/2012/02/paint-chip-chore-cards.html
Thanks that worked. These are great. I imagined it as much more elaborately labor intensive than they look.
But then I just spent probably well over an hour typing contact info into a page layout program, laying it out, printing it and cutting it out and pasting it onto 3 x 5 cards because I had to the same info for 2 kids, and I didn’t want to have to hand writing it all twice. Probably would have taken ten minutes.
Thank you, Julie!!
Oh my word, I’m so sorry about that!! Ironically, that was a post Connie had shared and I thought it was so funny I was going to send it to my husband. So that’s the link I obviously pasted in the wrong place!!!
I’d like to get my family going on the Online Job Chart but the link doesn’t seem to be working anymore… do you have a promo code I can use to get you some credit? Thanks – and I’m halfway through your podcasts!! Love ’em… feeling ready to begin the process of decluttering AND (more importantly) to start digging in to my waaaaay in the back of my mind blogging goals.
No code. But you should be able to go to the website (http://myjobchart.com/) and still sign up. I just won’t get any credit. But thanks for checking!