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[quote=Anonymous]It's hard to know, when you don't include ages.  Things look really different at when kids are different ages.

In general, though, we managed these things by consolidating them, usually around food.

When my kids were in elementary school (which is what I assume based on this list), we would sit down together 4 times a day.  Breakfast, after school snack, dinner, bedtime.  At each of these check in times, there were things that needed to be done before (e.g. You show up at breakfast with clothes on.  Before we sit down for afternoon snack you put your lunch containers in the dishwasher, and your backpack and jacket in their spot by the door.) and things that would happen there.  In our house pray before all meals, I read aloud at bedtime, we talk about responsibilities for the next period of time (e.g. you have soccer after school tomorrow, right after dinner, please go get your cleats and shin guards and put them in your backpack).  So, all of those things got consolidated into those 4 times.

Now they're teenagers, and we gather at breakfast every day, pray, and talk through the day, who needs to picked up when, who is making dinner, etc . . .  And then whoever goes to bed first finds the others and says goodnight. Sometimes we eat lunch or dinner together, but sometimes people are absent.

My other thoughts are

1) I don't pay for chores.

2) If your kid's chore is something you won't notice if it's not done, then it's going to be hard for your kid to see that as meaningful.  Maybe pick another chore?

3) I can't imagine how laying out a week of clothes would work, either logistically, or socially because kids change their mind about what they wear.

4) If you want to work out, and one of your kids wants to join you, that's great!  It doesn't really belong on this list though. [/quote]

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