Any ideas for a chore/behavior chart for my children?

Question

I have a 4 and 7 year old, I am trying to get more organized and give them chores. Does anyone know a website maybe that has good ideas. Or does anyone have and ideas to getting me and them more organized. I would like them to get more involved in housework since they are now both old enough to help out. Also what is some good rewards to give them?

Answer 1

For my 7 year old granddaughter who mostly lives with us, we made up a chore chart for her to give her some spending money and treats for when she goes to the stores when she is with us.
Here's what we made up:
DUST:
vcr/shelf
video shelf
tv face
lamp base 10 cents/week M-F
around microwave
stand/dust statues weekends as needed-5 cents
top of lvg.rm. baseboard heater
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Brush Teeth (AM & PM) 10 cents/day
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Put clothes in hamper 10 cents/day
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Brush Hair 10 cents/ day
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Put shoes away 10 cents/ day
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Eat ALL food given to you at meals 20 cents/ day
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Read one chapter a day(or be read to) 10 cents/ day
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It amounts to between $3.10 to $4.35 per week...which is plenty for a 7 year old. These are her money chores. If she wants to rent a special video or DVD, she can do special chores, such as helping me fix supper, or cleaning the windows in my van or cleaning out the van, or feeding all our hamsters (we have 9).
She is very careful with her money and knows if she finds something she really wants, it might mean working for 2-3 weeks before she can save up enough money to get it, opposed to getting a small toy every week.
I am very proud of her. We have been doing this for a year now.

Answer 2

My child is now 11 - and her homework load is so huge that during the school year - we have done away with chores and her only chore is to get good grades in school.

Now, I don't have a website to share with you - BUT - I can tell you what we did.

When she was little we had a chore chart in her room. We would make it out of a piece of poster board. Across the top were all the different chores she could do. Some were musts - like "hamper" (meaning her dirty clothes went in the hamper) - or "dishes" (meaning that she cleared her dishes from the table). There was also "Flag" (put out or take down the flag), Garbage (take out the garbage), "cook" (help cook or make lunch), table (set the table), bed (make her bed) - etc. Then - along the left were the weeks. You can fit about 10 - 12 weeks per chart. Drawing lines from top to bottom and left to right - with colorful crayons - we would make a grid. We would buy little stickers of stars or bugs or kitties or whatever she was into at the time. Right before bedtime every night she would put stickers in the squares that reflected chores she had done that day. She was only with us on weekends at that time - so we gave her a quarter for each sticker. At the end of the week she would add them up (this was great for math skills) and usually she would get a few dollars for what she'd done each week. You could do a dime - or even just say that 10 stickers are required to get your allowance that week - whatever it is. She loved saving her money and then taking a trip to Toys R Us - or whatever. This worked really well - and as she got older - we just told her that even though no sticker was involved that she'd still be expected to do what we asked in order to get allowance. These days that's just keeping her room neat and doing her homework, but the chore chart served as a great guide when she was little.

Good luck!

Answer 3

To make things easier for me I had my two sons, 2 1/2 and 41/2 sorting their own laundry into colors and whites and a smaller basket for socks. It kept the socks from getting separated for some reason. They kept their same chores for a couple of week instead of trading off so each could get used to doing and and pick up speed and for themselves learn how to do thing quicker. They had loose time limits, but, the longer it took the less amount of time they had for the stuff they enjoyed. Like dessert at the dinner table. I never with held dessert totally. If you didn't finish all that was on you plate then you still got dessert but only a little. My thinking...if you can't finish whats on your plate then you don't really have room for too much dessert. I never, never, never bought candy from the check out isle either. Anyway, to me chores are rewarded by being able to live in a cleaner more organized house.That's its own reward. And Mom works full time outside the house so if one decides to help Mom with her specific chores, ability taken into account, or do other things around the house without being asked. To teach them if you see something that needs to be done, do it, don't wait to be told. This is when rewards are given. Plenty of 'honest" praise is give for regular responsibilities (chores) Rewards for going above and beyond regular responsibilities.

Answer 4

Chores are a very important lesson that many children these days dont learn. KUDOS to you for choosing to help them learn how a family is to be run. My daughter(12) is on the "chip chart" I made up a chore chart on the computer. Things like.. raking, dishes, sweeping, vac, dusting, etc. We bought poker chips and together as a family made a VERY ATTRACTIVE Mosaic jar out of a large pickle jar. (neat project!) Each chore is certain points for the difficulty and time needed. For the RED chips, they were 5 points and they were for the harder jobs. for 5 points you get 1.00.. and so on. I usually made it out so that she could make 10.00 a week. For every chore she did, I signed next to it and we together put the chip in the jar. For the 4 year old, simple things such as making her bed, cleaning up her room, and so forth I would do a sticker chart. Let her choose the stickers and for everything she does, put a sticker next to it. at the end of the week, she chooses the restaurant or a 5.00 toy. If she gives you a problem.. then take a sticker away. Same way with the older one.... you can take chips away for bad behavior. Good Luck!

Answer 5

I don't know a website but i tell you what you teach the 7 year old how to sweep and do the dishes and teach the 4 year old how to make the bed and give them 20 minutes TV time and send them to bed at nine a clock and on later and when they misbehave send then to bed early and if they get up put them right back in the bed and don't let them sleep in your bed and make a chart telling them when they get TV time and when they compose themselves take them out to eat and when they what to do something rasie their hand and chage their room around and take the tv out of their room and replace it with books and toys so they won't go to bed late and they get a good nigt sleep

Answer 6

We have used chore charts and you can get a free one at this site. They are pretty good.

Answer 7

This website has age appropriate chore charts.
http://housekeeping.about.com/od/chorechart1/a/ageapprchores.htm

Answer 8

TELL THEM THEY ARE TO TAKE TURNS DOING CHORES , THAT ARE PROPER FOR THEIR AGE , NO CHORES , NO CARTOONS AND MUST HAVE TIME OUT IN THEIR ROOMS