Chores Revisited

Well, I have to confess.  While I learned a lot from my old chore system and I still highly recommend the book, I have now switched to yet another system.  The funny thing is, it is the one I used about 10 years ago when I had only 4 kids.  We had this same chart hanging in our laundry room two houses ago.  It's a great chart and comes with a little system that is explained in the kit that comes with it.  I ordered it from Doorpost.com and it is really user friendly, especially if you have more than 2 children and lots of daily/weekly jobs.  Here is a picture of the chart that you fill out and then cut/color the little pictures that come with it.  After I filled it out, I had it laminated and hung it up.  Since I had already organized my cleaning with the other system into daily, weekly and monthly jobs, it wasn't hard to put them all on the chart. What was making it hard with the other system, was taking the time every morning to divvy up the jobs.  With morning sickness and summer craziness, it just wasn't working.  Also, since I was changing the jobs daily, it would take me a while to figure out who wasn't doing their job.  Like, if I see that the dog hasn't been fed or the living room not straightened, then I would have to go to the folders and find who was supposed to be doing it.  What I do now to keep things "new", is I change the jobs monthly. So, at the beginning of the month I rotate jobs.  Each child gets one daily job and one or two weekly job rows (there are a few jobs on each row) that have to be done by Saturday afternoon.  For monthly jobs, I am going to put them in a jar and when someone gets in trouble, they have to do a monthly job.  Does this make sense?  Check out the Doorpost website.  They have some cool stuff.  So, this is my current system. Let's see how long this last :o)