Great System

So last Monday after the kids left for school I thought to myself,"This is not working." Every morning and every day after school I am making myself and my kids CRAZY! I am constantly hounding my kids, "Have you done your homework?", "Put your reading logs away?", "Make your bed!" I want self sufficient kids. Well we are on our way. This system was so easy. I picked these boards up at Office Max, and printed off these tasks on my label machine. Everyday they have to check off all these responsibilities. They each have a cubby, in their cubby are different folders. One labeled reading, another homework. I have a cubby and my folder is labeled Mom papers. Everyday they get home they have to empty there backpacks and put all papers away in the right folder. Then they start on there board. When they have checked off all there tasks they get to use there 30 of xbox, or TV time. One last thing I really stressed this. They can not check the task until the folder has been put away!!! All homework material put away!!! I have to say I think it has fixed the problem, for now. They are even waking up in the morning and doing their piano, and flashcards before school. It's been really great. Just wanted to share what is working for us.

One last thing, those 4 mail boxes on the top of the cubbies have been such a fun thing in our house. I got them at Target for a dollar a piece. We have been putting little notes in there to each other, everyone is in on it, even Dad. The kids get so excited when they see the flag up and see they are getting mail.