Chores

This week is Little Lady's first week of completing her chore chart. I found two very helpful websites while perusing Pinterest: the first is http://parentingsquad.com/45-chores-young-children-can-do and the second is http://www.money-and-kids.com/age-appropriate-chores.html. I used a few ideas from both and a little creativeness of my own and knowing my daughter and came up with what I thought would work best for her. I decided to give her two chores that would remain the same for the entire year she is two adding another when she is three another at four...The two that will remain the same for this year are making her bed and putting clothes in the hamper daily. I will also give her one more chore that will change weekly. This week it is using the sticky roll on the couch and the kitchen table chairs. She already likes to do this so I thought it would be a good thing to kick off her chart since she will be rewarded for doing so. She has to complete this chore whenever I vacuum the downstairs this week. I made her a chart on construction paper that I will re-do every Monday with her permanent chores and her changing chore. I made five squares next to each chore and she will get a sticker when she completes them. I am choosing to only make her to do them Monday through Friday and give her the weekend off - since I don't even typically clean on the weekends. If she completes her chores and fills her chart with stickers then she will get to visit the $1 bin at Target and pick something out. Some weeks I may choose to give her $2 (her age) in cash as a reward, but again, until she gets the hang of it I will choose the Target option for now. I'm really thinking that this will be a good thing for her especially to start it now so when she is 9 I won't hear as much whining and to teach her the responsibility of picking up after herself and helping around the house.