Chores and Returning College Students During Summer - Any Problems?

Cheeringsection
Sun, 09 Jul 2017 21:24:04 +0000

For several summers now this is how it works at our house. I make 4 lists of chores. Each child (2) is assigned a list on Monday morning (list A, B, C, or D). The list must be complete by Saturday at 2pm. If there are still chores undone on Saturday morning I wake them “early” depending upon what is not yet done. If they want to sleep in, it all gets done early. Lists are reassigned the next Monday so no one does the job they hate two weeks in a row but all jobs are reoccurring so that I only have to do the lists once (for example, change sheets on your bed, vacuum certain rooms, dust certain rooms, change the placements, dishwasher emptying for the week, empty garbage cans, yard work, errands, etc). It may not totally remove the need to remind them during the week but it might at least start making them see how much there is to be done.