cleaning up
I need suggestions for how to get the kids to clean up after themselves ... preferably without complaining the whole time about it being 'too much' or 'going to take forever'!!! Our rule is that if...
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Raise your voice, lol! DD is getting better. DH says to pick it up or it's going in the garbage, and he has gone around her room with a black garbage bag, picking out the toys that we had previously...
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That's what I do too Elaine. I tell them to clean up (sometimes with a raised voice...lol!), and whatever is left on the ground in x minutes is either going to charity or in the garbage. It usually...
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That's a good idea Jean! A daily list of small stuff, but if they don't do that and accept paying jobs from your parents, no money. Brilliant! DD doesn't have a huge concept of money, but she knows...
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Nothing works!! I have thrown tons of toys away, not taken them places that they were looking forward to, ect. They do usually get it done but it takes hours of me nagging and nagging and nagging and...
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glad I'm not alone in this ... today DS had a tantrum everytime I asked him to do something (pick up the toys he left at the top of the stairs, clean up the basement from when they played down there,...
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If I was to do it over again, the second my kid could walk and carry a stuffed animal, is the day that I could have taught her to go put that stuffed animal on her bed. And I could have been...
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Same thing here it is very frustrating sometimes it takes hours. Even with the daycare kids. I have to admit I bribe sometimes I say if they have it done in 15 minutes and i put it on the timer they...
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we started a new rule that only two different things could be out at once; otherwise, we had lego and cars and trains, etc all over the place and no one wanted to clean up. If Mom or Dad find more...
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Ooooo! I like that one! We might have to try that! No DS or Wii if the barbies are still out, lol!
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I'm going to try this idea for the kids this year. http://theidearoom.blogspot.com/2009/08/reward-points-system-and-home-store.html The past school year we tried allowances and it totally didn't work...
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we are doing a modified version of exactly that system now (started 2 days ago). I made up a chart for what they can gain 'tokens' for (behaviours and chores around the house) and a chart for what...
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