Things You'll Need:
- Dry erase board
- Markers
- Tag board
- Velcro
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Step 1
Consider your child's age. Give younger children minimal responsibilities that they can accomplish, with your help if needed.
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Step 2
Build your chart around what you want to accomplish. If you want a cleaner house, assign cleaning chores to older children. If you want to teach your toddlers to groom themselves properly, add grooming chores like baths, teeth, hair combing and more.
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Step 3
Make one chart for each child, or combine all your children on a large chart. Combine the chores, but make sure you fairly distribute them amongst siblings.
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Step 4
Create a chart with the days of the week, children's names and chores to complete. If you're rotating the chores often, use a dry erase board or make a chart with tag board. List the chores on pieces of tag board with Velcro on the back and attach them to the assigned children for different day of the week.
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Step 5
Add incentives in one of several ways including putting a wage amount on each chore. This creates competition for the high earning jobs, so find a system to fairly distribute these chores.
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Step 6
Require certain daily chores be done without incentives, and give incentives for total chores done at the end of each week.
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Step 7
Keep incentives simple and inexpensive. Base the pay scale on the chore. If a child completes a chore make sure she's rewarded with a 1 to 2 dollars or a token that she can save towards the purchase a new video game.
