The Everday Family Chore System Review

I have been looking for ways to help me get my kids to want to do their chores. Also, my kids only want to do just one chore and not learn to do other chores. The Everyday Family Chore System has some great advice on how to get your kids to rotate through some different chores that you set up. This chore system was designed by Vickie Bentley of Everyday Homemaking.

I received the digital version of The Everyday Family Chore System. The book is about 88 pages long and is broken down into three parts.

Part one talks about laying a foundation. Training your children from the beginning is the first step to having a successful home management system. The book tells how to have age appropriate expectations of your kids.

Part two talks about implementing the plan. There is a life skills checklist in this part that tells you what your child should be able to do at a certain age. Also included in part two is how to put together a chore chart. There are several options listed in how to make this work. (see below)  There are also zone cleaning pages and “how to” pages included in this section.



Part three is the actual chore system. There are printable chores (job labels) and printable how to do it cards. One way to make a chart is to print out the job labels and attach them to clothes pins. You can then put the clothespin next to the child’s name that has that chore for the week or month. The how to do it cards help the child learn how to set the table, sweep, vacuum, dust, tidy the bathroom, and several more (too many to list). There are also blank job labels and blank how to cards if you need to make your own.

I plan to set up this chore system in September. We have just been so busy that I haven’t had time to do it yet. I have already been going through the chores and writing down which ones my kids, ages 15, 14, almost 12, and 6, can do by themselves. I have also noted which how to cards my kids will need to use to do certain chores and we may use these cards to do a fall cleaning. This system looks fairly easy to use and I think it will work great in our home. I’m looking forward to getting it implemented.