A weekly chore chart the whole family can see
How to set up a chore chart where every job has an owner and a day, and the kids can see what is theirs.
Pick a small number of jobs
Begin with a few jobs rather than everything in the house. A short chart is easier to follow, and you can add to it once it is working.
Give every job a name and a day
A job with a person and a day is much harder to miss than “someone should do the bins”. Put each job on the day it needs doing and write whose it is.
Some ideas to start from
These are suggestions to adapt to your own home and to what your children can do:
- Pack school bags the evening before
- Put the laundry away
- Set or clear the table
- Take the bins out
- Water the plants
Share the load between parents too
Put the grown-ups’ jobs on the same chart. When kids can see that everyone has a part, the chart feels fair rather than like a list of orders.
Check it once a week
Take a minute when you plan the week to see what was done and what needs changing. Swap a job that never works, and keep the ones that do.
Put the plan in one shared place
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Keep reading
- How to plan the family weekA simple weekly routine for school runs, dinners and chores.
- A simple weekly family meal planPlanning a week of dinners around the rest of the week.
- Printable weekly family plannerA blank weekly planner to print, with a column for school runs, dinners and chores.