I guess I'm having labor relation problems. One of my workers is questioning his job responsibilities. This was his way of asking others to question it with him. As you can see, he didn't find any union sympathy. This prompted me to type up an entire list of chores that must be done. This took me about 5 minutes, and I'm sure I've left some good ones out. I thought it was important I show my workers we're all in this together. Here's our list. We are still discussing how to divide the fun amongst ourselves.
- Litter Box
- Bird cage
- Birds' food and water
- Yumi's food and water
- Laundry baskets down to basement
- Laundry wash & dry
- Laundry fold and put away, (baskets brought up)
- Grocery shopping
- Putting away groceries
- Garbage
- Recyclables
- Sweeping floors
- Vacuuming
- Mopping floors
- Dusting
- Tidying living room
- Tidying kitchen
- Tidying boys’ bedroom
- Tidying mom and dad’s bedroom
- Tidying guest room
- Cleaning boys’ bathroom
- Cleaning mom & dad’s bathroom
- Tiding basement- Wii room
- Lawn mowing
- Raking
- Cleaning the garage
- Bringing in the mail
- Watering plants
- Cleaning back deck/weeding
- Organizing video games and controllers, systems, cords etc.
- Cooking supper
- Cooking lunch
- Cooking breakfast
- Loading dirty dishes
- Unloading clean dishes
- Windows
So we're continuing our labor relation discussions and trying to figure out what's going to work for us.
5 comments:
I wonder if rotation of chores would work so the same people aren't always doing the same things......:) Good luck with your labor relations!
My daughter rotated the chores with her 3 kids. Did each a week then changed to another one. That worked really well.
My kids pretty much did as l asked except clean their rooms. I learned to shut the door. lol. I was a single working mom and was glad they did what they did.
I can understand that Edie. :) I only have one child, but she has certain things she knows to do for her bedroom . There is a list on her bedroom wall and she is pretty good about taking care of it. Then there are days where it could be the farthest from her mind. LOL On the whole, I can't complain too much. There are other jobs which are standard for her dishwasher duty and folding small towels and washcloths. :) Whatever she helps me with, I'm thankful. I'm not a single mom, but keeping the house under control falls into my category! LOL
Good luck with your labor dispute. My vote would be chore rotation too.
I end up doing it all anyway; I'm too much of a control freak.
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