As mothers, we hope that everyone in the family will help clean the house so that we aren’t the only ones doing the housework–and so we can teach our children and train them for adulthood. If you would like fun, creative, and DOABLE ways to make this happen, we have a podcast episode just for you!
Join April and Saren on Power of Families Radio and Power of Moms Radio as they share some of their best ideas for getting the whole family involved in the housework. (In case you haven’t heard, this fall Power of Moms is expanding into a separate platform—Power of Families, that will serve everyone in the family.) Enjoy!
SHOW NOTES:
Keeping it Clean by Danielle Porter
How Letting Go of Perfect Helps Me Have a Clean Home by Terri-Ann
Family Systems eCourse
This episode is enchanting! What a super, inspiring topic to address! To add magic to what we already have up (the charts, the spinning wall wheels, the fill-in cards) is the ingredient we’ve lost touch with.
Thanks for the reminder!
I just listened to this episode and I was wondering what specific ideas you had for implementing a system where helping each other and team work plays a bigger role in housework?
Thanks! Loved this episode!
Great question! In our family, I often work side-by-side with the kids on one of their tasks for the week, and then we have our girls weed together and our boys mow/edge together. And after-dinner jobs are divided up so we are all doing a part of it. But I’d love to learn more ways to incorporate teamwork. Any ideas you think you could apply inside your family that you’d like to share?