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  Nov-2 4:15 pm

I am brainstorming ways to get my kids involved in chores and contributing more to our household. Do you have any tips, ideas, stories to help motivate me?

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No tips here, but happy to brainstorm with you! My kids are 2, 4 and 5.5 so they should definitely have some easy chores by now, but I tend to be obsessive compulsive and do everything myself. I'm working on letting go and letting things be imperfect though, lol.

My daughter (5.5 yo) is responsible for putting her clothes away after I wash and fold them. We have a pretty easy system of tops in one drawer, bottoms in one, pj's in one. I help her with the (limited amount of) stuff that needs to be hung up.

My 4 yo son sets the table..if you can call it that, lol. He takes out a wash cloth for each of the kids and cloth napkins for the grown ups as well as silverware.

They all take their dishes to the sink after meals.

My 2 yo surprisingly loves to help unload the dishwasher. He knows pretty much where everything goes.

Someone on another board suggested a 5 Minute Chore Jar where they draw a chore written on a piece of paper. It should take no longer than 5 minutes and could be something like "Take a wet rag and wash down the fronts of the cabinets." Or something easy like that.

I thought that sounded like a good idea...

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BTW, I found this link and thought there were some really great ideas!

Chores: Getting your kids to help
http://parenting.ivillage.com/mom/organization/0,,433n,00.html?ice=iv:mb:msg:kb

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Thanks for the link Kellie!
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Miles will be 2 next week, so we don't really have chores but I do work with him on putting away toys throughout the day. He loves the this cleanup song he learned at school so we sing that. For whatever reason that song puts him into a cleanup trance and he starts picking up immediately LOL. I do have him put his dishes (all plastic) in the sink when he's done and have him "help" me clean up any messes he makes. He also "help" me put the laundry in the washer and dryer. All this takes extra time, but I'm hopeful that by getting him involved now he will be in the routine to do real chores in the coming future.

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