A chore chart is a perfect organizational tool for any busy household. It’s especially ideal for households that have multiple children. The main goal is to keep track of all of the responsibilities that each of the children has.
When parents are raising children, it’s important to give them basic household chores to do. This helps give them community-building skills, not to mention a foundation for when they own their own home in the future. But keeping track of the responsibilities can be difficult, especially with multiple kids to wrangle. It’s hard to know who was responsible for what, when — and before you know it, you’re the one doing all the housework.
Parents shouldn’t be responsible for all of the housework! A chore chart will turn basic chores into a game rather than, well, a chore. The charts don’t just have to be for the kids, either. Parents might add their own names and responsibilities to show their kids that everyone in the family is taking care of their household duties.
There are multiple types of chore charts, some more detailed than others. One type of chore chart is the weekly chart, which records everything that needs to get done on each day of the week, along with the person responsible for making sure these things happen.
Another type of chore chart will list the chores and their “owners.” The owner of a chore is the person responsible for making sure it gets done. There will be boxes for each day of the week that can be checked to indicate that the chore was completed.
There are also daily chore charts. Rather than assigning each chore to a person, these charts simply list every chore that should be completed each day. After someone in the family does it, they’ll check off the box for that day of the week.
For large families, it might help to break the chart down by the person responsible, and then the tasks they’re responsible for. Their name will be given at the top of the box, and then there will be a list of each of their chores. They’ll be responsible for checking off the chores they’ve completed.
It can be helpful for parents to implement a reward system for the chore chart. If a child completes all of their chores for an entire week or month, maybe they get extra television privileges or a game they’ve been wanting. If the whole family does all of their chores for a week or a month, maybe they get to take a family outing to a fun place.