The baskets are way larger than her original drawer space and I think this will be one of the best purchases I've made in a while. I labeled each basket so she can easily see what goes where and made one basket specifically just for play clothes, which in itself will be huge laundry/time saver because if ever there was a little girl who is rough and tough on her clothes it is her. She is old enough now that I've been trying to promote a lot of self responsibility in taking care of her own things and since I just made her up a new chore chart, I wanted her to be able to start off with a clean slate. I found a really cute "responsibility" chart that has a place for weekly chores and daily chores from this article on I'm an organizing Junkie.
Here are the links she provided if you want to print your own off:
Girls Chart
Boys Chart
Kendle's daily chores are:
Make her bed
Tidy up bathroom
Let Bogie (our dog) out to play and make sure he has food
Play with Morgan or read him a story
Put dirty clothes/shoes away
Tidy bedroom before bed
Kendle's weekly chores:
Empty bedroom garbage
Sort laundry
Wash sliding door
Weed/Help pick up yard
Help clean out car
Clean room well (which I told her if she is doing her daily chores like she should this won't be a big job because it will already be clean)
I'm hoping some of these things will just become routine. I may be aiming a little high giving her so many things, but I think she is capable of doing it since she already does a lot of them anyways. Now I just need to get the rest of my house in shape. It seems like every time I get one room under control, the rest of the house decides to look like a tornado came through. :)
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I hear you on the one room under control and the rest of the house looking like a tornado. So true. I love organizing. So much fun! Enjoy.
I love a good clean organized room. We took a parenting class (on our own free will, not court-ordered - ha!) a couple of years ago and they suggested instead of a "long" chore list, to pick one thing and work on only that for a week or two (with something like a sticker chart method) and then once that becomes just habit to pick a different thing and do that for a week or two, etc. We've done it a few times and it worked super - it was a lot less overwhelming than a whole list of stuff to keep track of (for both us and the kids). Just a suggestion...
I finally cleaned Sydnee's room on Saturday and it feels so good. Now all I need is some organization for all of her stuff. My house always looks like a tornado.
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