The Mighty Beals Family: Summer Chores

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Summer Chores

So, I'm tired of my chore charts and since Cooper and Jackson can now read, I'm trying something new this summer. I found a cool blank Chore chart on "The Project Girl" web page. So, I uploaded it and added in the chores I am going to have those two boys do. I'm sure I'll find more for them to do (help with laundry, clean out cupboards, etc...) but for now this will suffice. She suggested getting each kid a clip board with their name on it, a stack of the chore charts and a pencil with it to cross off what they have done.

I also am rereading "The Parenting Breakthrough" so I can get back to setting goals as a parent and family. (We always do so well until baseball season comes, then our lives just go haywire for 8 weeks!)

1 comment:

Leslie said...: Great idea!!! Kids really do thrive on schedules and lists. It will make your life so much easier.; May 11, 2010 at 5:20 PM

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He Said What!!??

**We were all going to go swimming at my mom's house, so I told the boys to go get into their swimming suits. I looked downstairs a couple minutes later and Jackson was downstairs naked. I said, "Jackson! You are too big to be running around the house naked!" He called back, "I'm not running." I said, "Fine. You are too big to be walking around the house naked." He paused a minute and said, "What about skipping?"
**Jeramy asked Sawyer to bring my laptop upstairs to me, but to walk slowly and hold it with two hands. He started walking up the stairs then stopped and said, "But Dad, what if one of my parts starts itching."
**Jackson's primary class was having a lesson on different ethnicities (or something to that nature) and Jackson asked his teacher (who is Hawaiian), "Sister Anderson, are you brown or are you white?" She said, "I don't know, what do you think?" He said, "Well, your skin is brown, but you act white."
**Jackson told his primary teacher, "Hey, your stomach is getting big." She said, "I know, I'm going to have a baby." He said, "What are you, Mother Nature?"
***Jeramy was washing Sawyer's hair and Sawyer didn't like it, so he said, "Dad! You're hurting my bones."
***Sawyer asked me to write down the number "fittyitty" on a piece of paper for him. I didn't know what he ment so I said, "50?" No, so I said "15?" No, so I kept on asking until I was out of ideas. Then he said, "the one you can't count to." OH, "infinity?" "Yeah, Mom, that's what I said, 'fittyitty'>"
***I was driving and Sawyer said, "Mom, what does does it look like on the inside of a car and a train and a bus and a truck and an airplane and everything in the whole wide world?"