As my two kids get older, I find myself with reduced stress. The kids are growing into fine adults. They are helpful, they are considerate, they are, best of all, more able to meet their own needs! They no longer ask for a glass of water or for me to carry them or any of […]
Entries Tagged as 'housekeeping'
What Do I Want? Respect.
June 30th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Tags: Behavior · Home · Parenting · housekeeping
How To (Hopefully)
Make Cleaning Easier For The Kids
June 26th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Confession: when I ask my boys to clean their bedroom it usually ends in a huge weeping pile of me. After hours without progress and constantly breaking down tasks and repeat repeat repeating myself I am left wanting never to face this challenge again. So I wait and wait and then rinse and […]
Tags: Home · Organization · Parenting · housekeeping
What’s In A Chore?
June 5th, 2008 · 5 Comments
I’ll never forget a drawing Ben made of me when he was in kindergarten. It showed me vacuuming the floor. The caption read, “My mom likes to… vacuum.” When the picture came home in Ben’s backpack, I stared at it. I laughed. And then I cried.
No, I didn’t cry. […]
Tags: Parenting · housekeeping
Do You Tie Chores to Allowance?
May 16th, 2008 · 5 Comments
I’ve written about chores here before. In the spirit of being honest, I have to tell you we abandoned Chore Wars shortly after trying it. There were 3 problems: 1) –Me. I hate having to log in separately for each boy to keep track of his tasks; heck, I hate tracking […]
Tags: Behavior · Home · Parenting · housekeeping
