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Mrs.Guz
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Abigail Taylor 09.18.2008
"Chores" for a 3y.o?
Mrs.Guz
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I'm going to make a chore chart for Abigail. What are some "chores" you have your toddler do? One thing I'm putting on there is sleeping in her own bed. We'll reward with an allowance (coins, mostly pennies)
Abigail Taylor 09.18.2008
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Re: "Chores" for a 3y.o?
Don't think you have a pet but I have Nate help with feeding gabbie and opening the door to let her in/out.
Another thing you can add at this age is obey, not whining, follow directions, brush teeth, getting dressed.
Set the table, take plate to the kitchen after dinner, put away clean dishes, bring their clothes to the washer and help put them away after they're clean, put hanging clothes on hangers, dusting (they LOVE this!) with a wet cloth, fold towels, clean room before bed, mop (we gave them a swiffer without the extensions so it's just their size), put new trash bags in the can.
It looks like we make them do a lot, but they really don't. We just expect for them to be contributors to keeping our family functional. One thing I really had to change was telling them that I want "help" or a "favor". Those small words teaches that you're there to do everything and they're not expected to contribute.
On his responsibilities chart is: share, get ready for bed, brush teeth, show respect, say please and thank you, put his toys away, keep your hands to yourself. I think there may be one more on the list. He gets magnets for each of those. If he does a great job all week, he gets a super duper surprise. Sometimes, we take him to Menchies. Every so often he'll get to pick out an action figure. Sometimes it's even helping me bake cookies or cupcakes.
I'm going to probably have him start doing actual chores soon - things he's already starting to do: emptying the silverware from the dishwasher, busing his plate, etc. B loves helping, all on his own, so I'm going to use that to my advantage and keep encouraging him! :-)
Evie helps set the table, except knives. She helps sort the laundry into piles. All of her plates, cups, etc are in a basket in the bottom shelf of the pantry and she puts those away from the dishwasher. She has to be a part of cleaning up her play room at the end of the day. She brings her dishes to the sink when she is done with them. She has to help make her bed and pick up her bedroom, put her clothes in the laundry hamper. Put her books back on the bookshelf after bedtime reading. Oh, of course, brush teeth and hair, with help from us.
The things she helps with that she doesn't HAVE to are fetching diapers, helping make a meal, bringing stuff to the garbage can, feeding the cats.
She doesn't have a reward chart. She just has to do these things. She likes doing them so far, with the extreme exception of picking up her toys . And I am mean mommy who tells her if I have to put them away after she goes to bed, I am going to put them in a bag and put them in the attic until she's grown up enough to take care of them. Nico thinks this is very mean, but if I tell her that, she usually does pick them up. Sometimes she calls my bluff and goes upstairs to go to bed and the next morning, I really have bagged up her toys. I used to put them in the garage at the old house. Now I put them in the closet in her playroom that she seems unaware of.
Danielle is 5, but her chore chart is this...
Get Dressed (by herself without me having to ask her more than 1 time)
Eat breakfast (she has issues with eating first thing and doesn't like to eat breakfast...it's a constant battle)
Good Day (either at school - determined by teacher's report or on weekends determined by me)
Eat dinner (she has a 5 bite rule, must take 5 bites of everything, no whining no "fighting" it) she's also expected to take her dishes to the sink/kitchen after, but i did not put it on her chore chart
Sleep in Bed
Clean Room/playroom
Help Mommy - this is really a generic one that i can reward her for doing something mommy asks help with. Like...get darren's wipes out of my bag please...pick up all the shoes around the house and put them in the shoe closet, take the clean towels upstairs to your bathroom
We have included a 'Go potty before dinner' responsibility on Addi's because it never fails that she'll need to go right smack in the middle of dinner. Get dressed, Get ready for bed, brush teeth, take out trash (she loves to help her daddy take the trash out and take the can up to the street on Thursdays), Eat dinner (what is fixed for her). Set the table etc. If i can think of others I'll add them.
She gets a magnet 'Sponstibility' as Addi says when she does good, and she can lose them for not following directions too. At the end of the week we count them up and if she has reached a certain amount (which she always does) she gets to pick from the reward bag.