Engrossed in her art and laundry duty days

Our Weekly Laundry Schedule

Monday.....Bubs

Tuesday....The Buddy

Thursday...The Dollies

Friday........Me and Hot Hubby

Everyone does their own laundry. We've been operating with this system for a few years now and it has been great!  I was always so frustrated when it came time to sort the laundry because it just seemed to take me hours to sort out whose was whose??!!!!  The goal is this....said child puts in hi/her laundry in the morning, switches it at lunch, or some point in the day and then they fold and get it back in their drawers by the end of the day.  That is if it works like clockwork.  If not, like most times, it is in their drawers by the next day.  Both boys have been dong their laundry for a few years now on their own and the girls just need help transferring between machines.  except baby Blu....she often needs help folding but  ya know what, she does a good job when she wants too and she's not even three:)

I think when they all see eachother doing chores, know this is what you do in our family, they just do it. They are caring for their things, they learn responsibility, life skills, teamwork, and character building and so on.  If their attitudes prevent them from working well then, that just earns them........drum roll please.....more chores!:):)  And not one likes that!

If my child is capable of doing something, no matter what it is in the house, cleaning toilets, unloading dishwasher, wiping handles then I say, "Giddy up baby and welcome to cleaning our home!" 

I used to have the mind set of,"Oh, I don't want to burden them, or they'll have their whole life to do that". Then I woke up out of my stupidness once I saw what I was creating in NOT teaching them chore responsibility and I've never looked back!  My job is to teach and train and guide them for His purposes.  I am not here to make them happy.  What is happy anyways? Getting what you want? Getting it easy? Forget it. I prefer to use the word joyful.  Joy is a fruit of the spirit and it is a choice.  Everyday to choose joy in all that I do and to teach that, to teach joy while scrubbing toilets...well then, they really can do anything:)

Comments

[tara pakosta]

this photo is PRICELESS!!!!!! I have tons of my girls painting and drawing on themselves. My daughter savannah drew on herself with marker almost every day at that age. one time she had her eyes closed coloring over her eyelids and I asked why and she says, "making my eyes green like yours and aunt ellens' ......keep taking these priceless shots!
tara