The Chore Chart

One of the things we have mostly struggled with is the girls behavior. We seem to have more time outs than anyone I ever met. To help with this I was searching for a chart to keep track of chores and behavior. I found a perfect chore chart at Target. It is a write and wipe board so I can adjust what the girls are striving for. It also is magnetic and came with a number of magnetic stars to indicate when they successfully completed a task for each day. They love trying for stars are are very proud of themselves when they earn every possible star for a day.

We started out with some simple tasks because, afterall, they are only 1 3/4 and 3 years old. You can't expect them to be making beds or washing dishes. The first 3 weeks worked well and included tasks such as brushing their teeth, putting dirty clothes away, throwing away garbage, behaving with no timeouts, going to bed nice and cleaning up toys. There is also room to add a few more tasks but I don't see a need for much more at this point. This has helps with helping us get into the habit of brushing teeth every day.

After we learned that J doesn't ever take a nap at school and therefore is super crabby every night we made an adjustment to the chart. We already mastered the teeth brushing so we removed that and added a spot for naptime at daycare. This has gotten us great results.

For any parent struggling with behavior or discipline problems I recommend trying this type of chart. I know that after the girls are a bit older we are going to have to make some reward adjustments because the simple little star isn't going to satisfy them but for now it works for us.