Fun To Use And Helpful Too! Get Your Home Organized With The Easy To Use Chore Chart!

Having problems getting chores done in your home? It’s time to de-clutter and get your whole family organized with a chore chart.

I love watching the Nanny show where the ever-patient and ever-tolerant Nanny with the cheeky sense of humor and dramatic flair (for the camera) issues advice and models good child-rearing skills. Whie it is mildly entertaining to see out of control brats and harried moms and absent or stoic or clueless fathers, it is more interesting to watch the administration of and positive results from the positive reinforcement techniques Nanny offers. One such technique is one we could have used growing up (though we did all the chores regardless): the chore chart.

The chore chart on the Supernanny show varies according to the needs, extremes, and developmental abilities of the children and, of course, according to the discretion of Supernanny Jo Frost. She provides, for example, a chore chart that doubles as a buddy chart for younger kids: the posters feature drawings of houses and Jo tells the kids which two are in each house. Each time the “team” of siblings in a particular house follows through with helping each other accomplish a chore chart (verbal, in this case) goal, that kid or team gets a reward: he, she, or they get(s) to spin the reward wheel and get(s) to have, essentially, the say in what the whole family will be enjoying later on that day or night.

In another episode, there were some six to ten kids. All the kids were wild, demanding, and unaware of such attitudes as respect, gratitude, or working and sharing responsibilities…so the mom did everything. Jo set up a chore chart (along with the accompanying reward system) and within days the zillions of punching, screaming, knife-and-fork-butts-on-table-pounding and demanding brats were cooking, cleaning, setting the table, and serving!

Some of the reward charts that partner the chore charts are simple and offer such minute rewards as a giant gumball or jawbreaker. Other chore chart rewards offer the chance for time alone with Mom or Dad, dinner out with the family, or special arts and crafts or game time. The chore chart and the subsequent positive reinforcement promises, that is, range from simple to complex, according to the ages, mental and physical abilities and disabilities, and discipline extremes needed of, by, or for the child/children concerned.

I have mentioned the reward chart as often as I have the chore chart, for even as a 40+-year-old on her own (with NO children, thank you), I get excited to watch the outcome of each chore chart design…to discover what the reward is! Now THAT’s positive reinforcement—for adult television audiences targeted to watch the ABC reality show…even when they don’t have or do not like kids.

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