Kids and cleaning advice

[BloodSpite]

Originally Posted by Zeuceone

A nice butt whooping always works.

Mine gets no allowance. If I ask her to do something that I deem above and beyond the SOP such as "clean your room" (something like weeding my flower garden) I'll pay her for it.

Her Chores are done when we do ours as a family. Saturday mornings are for cleaning. Everybody gets assignments at our morning "briefing" over breakfast. Goal is to have all operations complete in the AO by 1200 hours. Rest of the day is for erroneous details, operations and errands that need to be completed such as grocery shopping etc.

For me, it's all about setting an expectation, and keeping it consistently the same thing every week. She knows she can trash her room..but she also knows that means she has less free time for cleaning it on Saturday if she totally destroys it. Which means no games, no out to eat etc etc.

But then I'm a bit of a buzzkill according to some when it comes to children

[RevSmoke]

Originally Posted by BloodSpite

Mine gets no allowance. If I ask her to do something that I deem above and beyond the SOP such as "clean your room" (something like weeding my flower garden) I'll pay her for it.

Her Chores are done when we do ours as a family. Saturday mornings are for cleaning. Everybody gets assignments at our morning "briefing" over breakfast. Goal is to have all operations complete in the AO by 1200 hours. Rest of the day is for erroneous details, operations and errands that need to be completed such as grocery shopping etc.

For me, it's all about setting an expectation, and keeping it consistently the same thing every week. She knows she can trash her room..but she also knows that means she has less free time for cleaning it on Saturday if she totally destroys it. Which means no games, no out to eat etc etc.

But then I'm a bit of a buzzkill according to some when it comes to children

Sounds like consistency and order here. This is model. Expectations are clear, consequences are clear, family time is set.

I also agree with the approach to paying for extra tasks. They learn responsibility and what it means to work and how much money is worth.

Peace of the Lord be with you.

[HK3-]

Growing up, my parents had a list of chores for my sisters and I to do each week. By having the chores change every week it kept things interesting.

Same list, same jobs, just the jobs rotate to a different person each week.

[Mr B]

AMEN REV!!! Very well said!!

Originally Posted by BloodSpite

Mine gets no allowance. If I ask her to do something that I deem above and beyond the SOP such as "clean your room" (something like weeding my flower garden) I'll pay her for it.

Her Chores are done when we do ours as a family. Saturday mornings are for cleaning. Everybody gets assignments at our morning "briefing" over breakfast. Goal is to have all operations complete in the AO by 1200 hours. Rest of the day is for erroneous details, operations and errands that need to be completed such as grocery shopping etc.

For me, it's all about setting an expectation, and keeping it consistently the same thing every week. She knows she can trash her room..but she also knows that means she has less free time for cleaning it on Saturday if she totally destroys it. Which means no games, no out to eat etc etc.

But then I'm a bit of a buzzkill according to some when it comes to children

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This is also similar to how it works at my house.
Jobs for $$ are only offered after their regular Chores are done. The list is on the back of their doors.
If its not done, no deserts, no Ipods, no Nintendo DS..... Priveledges are earned and not to be expected. Kids these days do almost NOTHING in the way of chores and they expect to be handed everything. Not In My House, no way.
Disrespectful kids make me want to puke. I did my share of getting into trouble when I was a kid, but I cleaned my room, finished all my chores and was able to earn $$ afterwards. and I was always respectful to my parents adult friends.
Consistancy is the key!!!