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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Make the chores mandatory. If they don’t make their beds, clean their rooms, etc... then they don’t get screen time, video games, phones, favorite toys, special activities,etc... Start a chart or list so the expectations are clear. You have to take control back.[/quote]

OP - can you send me a link to a sample template of list/expectations etc? One child is a tween so something that works for everyone??[/quote]

I'm not PP, but my 11 and 13 year old have chores including setting/clearing dinner table, emptying dishwasher, taking dirty clothes to laundry room and sorting for me, folding all their clean laundry and putting it away, clean bedroom every Sunday, every night before dinner they have to make a sweep of the main living room and put their stuff away, trash taken out, trash bins to the street and back. I have a checklist for them--the only way my son can get it done. During summer vacation they have more to do. They get $10 a week spending money if they get it done. The money is worth it to me to not badger or remind them anymore. Maybe there is a way without cash, but I never found it.[/quote]

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