Monday, November 22, 2010

Chores

Gabe LOVES to play video games. Shocking I know. He comes by it honestly, obviously...if you know us you know that Bryan is a video game lover.

Today we started chores and I showed Gabe his chore chart. This is actually new to us because Gabe is still young, but I do believe that starting children young with some housework is a great way for them to learn many life skills. Plus, they feel great when they achieve their tasks and let's face it, it helps me out. lol!

I feel that playing video games is a privilege that he needs to earn SO...
...the chores we’ve started with are:
  • help make bed
  • feed Calie
  • take dishes to the kitchen (after breakfast, lunch, and dinner), and
  • pick up toys (before bed time)

When he accomplishes a task, he gets a sticker in the alloted square for that day. At the end of the day, we count up the stickers. For every sticker, he gets a 5 mins of game playing time.

He was pretty excited about it this morning. We shall see if that will continue.

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