Organize - Get Kids Helping at Home

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children from 6 to 8 years old, has become an important transition point. You are now in school full time and feeling really grown up. They have developed the skill and physical strength to handle tedious and detailed tasks. At the same time, it is still relatively short attention spans and are likely to be very bored easily.

During this time, they are able, very helpful around the house. But it must be fun, or they will not want to do, and you are both frustrated and resentful.

teach them life skills

It is probably a lot of patience and energy to keep them motivated. Learning new skills requires a lot of side-by-side coaching.

Here fun are some ideas that the task quickly, but also their lives skills.

Treasure Hunt - with a series of tasks and notes to lead children to a last treasure . For example, the first note to empty, says the dishwasher. The fact that the child finds another note telling him that the dust the living room. There he finds a reference to a table to him to say, empty the trash bathroom. At the bottom of the can is a final point, in an envelope with a dollar bill attached to buy or treat in his piggy bank.

Money Surprise - sometimes a dollar bill on the bottom of a game or the shoe in the middle of the room for some Time. Whoever finally takes them to bring it off and get the money.

Smiley Faces - Draw a smiley face in the palm of your child's hand if he has to do something particularly hard. No one else can see it, but he can rely on them and know that he is well loved and you're with him in your thoughts.

Doorman - Arm a child with a spray of non-toxic all-purpose cleaners and a clean cloth. Send him around the house to attack all the door jams, the walls around doors and turn plates

Knock knock, Who's there? -- Payment for a job or a service can be operated in a joint new joke or riddle. Our children love knock-knock jokes, and so it is always a pleasure to learn a new one. It may also be an incentive to you a new joke each time a task is done quickly and correctly.

Voice mail - Let instructions on a tape recorder after school for homework. Kids like to hear the sound of your voice, especially when she says: "I love you. It is a snack in the fridge." Finish

Photo - sometimes a photo of a particularly hard workers do a very good job. Post the photo on the refrigerator in recognition of a job well done. "

Secret Pals - Draw names Secret Pals (elves or helpful for younger children) to each other for one week, like the elves that helped little that the old shoemaker. It is always more fun to make someone else to bed, especially if someone might be surprised.

Follow the string - leaving a string in the whole house, which leads to a "treasure". After work finished, the children follow the string on the reward.

Coin raises - If there are two or more children; flip a coin to see, makes the task more difficult. Or, have different jobs on both sides of the coin-if it's heads, do the bathroom when the tails family room. For fun variation when it heads, each brings something on the left side if it tails, each takes a bit to the right. This version takes longer, but with each operating in a circle, it is more fun.

Title at the door - Use fun job titles create a sense of ownership of jobs - that the submission Clerk clips and organizes coupons from newspapers, the Handyman makes simple repairs ; The Storage Manager brings food cupboards and puts away the Pearl Diver does the dishes and the Lucky Duck gets the day off.

Bear-y Nice dress a large stuffed animal as a "trophy tour" to the cleanest room in the house. Award in Council.

Awards Family Night - Award blue ribbons or trophies home during the Family for outstanding work habits. Show the categories and the parameters of competition before the time, so that the children know what they want. For example, give awards for the most organized dresser drawers, most of socks folded, most toys picked up before the buzzer, most workers prepared to etc.

 

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