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[quote=Anonymous]I currently nanny for children who are generally very well behave and sweet, but I need some ideas on how to get the kids to keep their stuff picked up when I am not at their house.  Every evening and weekend the dishes, toys, books, dirty socks, shoes etc pile up around the house.  There are 3 kids that live in the house full time ages 1, 7 & 12, and a 13 year old that comes on weekends, vacations and 1/2 the summer.    The weekends the oldest child is here things are especially bad, there are a lot of issues with this child believing she is in charge of the adults and that she doesn't need to listen to any adults.  Generally I would have the kids pick up after school, but we have after school activities 4 days a week, homework to do and I am only with the kids 90 minutes when they get home.  On weekends MB is doing some office work, caring for the 1yr old,running the kids to play dates, practices, other parents houses and picking up DB's mess from around the house.  She does tell the kids to pick up but they generally just pile everything in the sink or on their bedroom floors. I know she tries to keep up with them, but she essentially has 5 children she's trying to take care of.  I will show up on Monday morning and the dishwasher will be clean with 1/4 of them being what I loaded Friday afternoon, and the sink heaping with dirty dishes often times with more than a second complete load of dirty dishes.  DB does yard work and that is it, I don't think he even knows how to do a load of laundry.  He is also a complete push over when it comes to what the kids want.

So what I am looking for is some ways to get the kids to stay motivated with helping around the house when I am not there.  They've had chore charts to earn an allowance, it lasts a week or two before they stop.  MB is not very good about having cash on hand and forgets to give them their allowance.  We've tried a marble jar with incentives tied to that.  DB told them they'd get a trampoline...which they earned last summer but now they expect extravagant things if they fill it up.  MB offered a weekend at an amusement park and they said "she'll just take us anyways we don't need to fill it to get the trip"  I've tried taking things away if they leave them around and telling them they have to earn them back. DB doesn't like to hear them whine and just gives them all their stuff back when MB and I aren't around.  I am out of ideas and overwhelmed with their constant messes.  [/quote]

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