Children's Achievement Chart and Board

Achievement Charts (almost) eliminate nagging for regular morning and evening chores. Nagging and micro-managing is very time consuming and creates a hostile environment where both parent and child are unhappy. It was a place we were at much too often!  Thank goodness this works for us!

Establishing a Daily Schedule

We have found, especially with children, establishing a daily schedule is essential for productivity.  This not only gives parents sanity, it also creates stability for kids, so they are secure in knowing when things are happening.

First, we set meal times and bed times.  We then established a morning routine.  Once our meal times, bed times, and morning routine were predictable, we continued by instituting a bed time routine.  After much trial and error, this is what we found worked for us...

Meal Times and Bed Times Set:  Breakfast is between 7:15 A.M. and 7:45 A.M. (except Baby's is more like 5:30 A.M. or 6:00 AM), a very light snack is optional at 10:00 A.M., lunch is 12:00 P.M.- 12:30 P.M., snack at 3:15 P.M., dinner is between 5:00 P.M. and 6:00 P.M.  Bedtime for Baby is 7:00 P.M., bedtime for Big Sis is 8:00 P.M., bedtime for parents is a target of 10:00 P.M.

Putting it all together...

Overview:
Monday: Organizing and Cleaning
Tuesday: Stock and Laundry
Wednesday: Food
Thursday: Planning and Finances
Friday: Animals and Outdoors
Saturday: Personal Care and Fun Stuff!
Sunday: A Day of Rest

In The Beginning...

On the first day, God organized matter, divided the light from the dark (Genesis 1:1-5).  On the second day He separated the waters from the Heavens (Genesis 1:6-8).  On the third day He created organic life (seeds, plants, etc.) (Genesis 1:9-13).  On the fourth day was created the sun, moon, and it's timing (Genesis 1:14-19).  On the fifth day He created animal life (Genesis 1:20-23).  On the sixth day man was created (Genesis 1:26-27).  On the seventh day, He rested and sanctified the seventh day (Genesis 2: 1-3). 

Betty Meyers created "The Creation Plan," "A Seven-day Approach to Guilt-free Homemaking."  Her book is now out of print, but not outdated in its wisdom. 

We have recently reorganized our home to follow her ideas of following God's plan in His creating the earth to create harmony and organization within our home and implemented some of our own that go along!

This is our journey.