Dec. 11, 2008 - Homeschool Memoirs #17: Chores
Oh how often we either say it or hear it … “Too much to do, not enough time!”? I hear it and say it quite often. How do you manage all the tasks you have to complete in just 24hours? There are a lot of different methods on how to get chores and organizing done. Some have a strict schedule others just kinda wing it.
THEME:
This week I would you to share how chores are done in your home. How you order your day with school and getting housework done. How do you decide which chores should be done by which child, of which age? I’m looking forward to hearing them!
Chores in our home are life as my children know it. There is no choice, it is just a result of being apart of our wonderful family. In our family everyone has many jobs to do so that we can accomplish what God has called us to do. I do have a confession to make. I have a housekeeper 2 times a week that does the major cleaning. So you will not see some chores listed. I am so thankful to my dear husband who insists on this. We are lucky; our housekeeper is a lovely woman who is a part of our family. She actually works for my sister once a week and my aunt the other 2 days. My kids love her and she really does more watching them so I can get my grocery shopping and other out of the house things done. Anyway back to chores. Even though we have help I insist that the children work hard every day to maintain the house. So much in fact that my older daughter must have the first load of wash hung up before Eula Mae(our help) arrives. By the time she arrives we have already done an hour of school! We will eventually not need the help but for now with the 2 young ones/school/and everything else I am thankful for the extra hands.
I thought I would list each child and what they do so you can get an idea of how my system works.
As you see I have divided the work into two different times each day. I found for us that if we didn't get the bulk of the work done in the morning it didn't get done. I also took the tip to divide up tasks into the days of the week. I find they get so much more done. You will notice that I have a chore list too. These are things that I just don't seem to get around to doing, but need to. Maintaining your home on a consistent basis makes life so much easier. We never have a whole day of cleaning we do little bits each day and the house always looks nice.
I just made a school chorepack for each subject/the time we are to do it/what we do on each day. This help with the “what's next MOM?” that I hear everyday from both girls. (I have a schedule posted too) They now move from Morning Chorepack to Schoolpack to Evening chorepack.
Most of this great stuff came from Titus 2. I can't recommend this book enough. Hope this was helpful. Enjoy your week!!!
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