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[quote=doodlebug]If it's too late for camps, then have a list of things they need to do during the day. Take away all electronics until you get home and the list is completely satisfactorily. The list might include things like cleaning their room including the closet and under the bed, gathering clothes, shoes and toys they no longer use, loading and unloading the dishwasher, defrosting the freezer, taking out the garbage, reading X number of pages in a library book, doing X number of pages in workbooks for math, spelling, grammar etc. Have a reward of some kind at the end of a certain period of time...every third week they get a full day of down time, or a trip to a certain museum or amusement park you all want to visit, the family goes to a movie ... whatever you can afford and is motivating to them. But don't cave and get your husband in on it too. Your house should be C.L.E.A.N. if they're home all day. Every time one of them says I'm bored they lose an hour of screen time or have to put a quarter in a jar or whatever. No screen time until everything on the list is done everyday. No exception.[/quote]

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