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Apr 2

Time Trials

Time Tracking Activity Chart This is a blank chart for you to pick whatever you want to time. Believe me, this can be fun!

Time Trials This is a chart of suggested activities to try timing, with room to record 4 trials for the same item. You can use this as an idea prompter in case you have trouble dreaming up things to time. You can use it for yourself to get base line times for activities you want to coordinate for yourself. You can use it for a family night as a time trial Olympics. You can assign it as a project for teens to work through timing  themselves.

Give that cell phone stopwatch a work out!

Mar 28

Better Birthdays

Serious about adding to your child’s life skills consistently?

Try this idea of linking every new birthday with a new job around the house. Click here for a list of ideas to have Better Birthdays.

Remember Longer Lasting Gifts from awhile back? It has other ideas for gifts that are not the latest item on the toy shelf.

Mar 2

Week Seven and Eight: Ingraining New Habits

If you are living alone, or have no help from others in the household, only you can keep up routine cleaning and attend to the deep cleaning tasks. Stay professional by doing tasks with an analytical spirit. Look for ways to streamline. Experiment with a different way of doing the jobs. Pinpoint the interruptions or events that  delay or set you off track.

If you still have organizational problems in certain rooms, now is the time to make them disappear and go away for good. If you conquered them earlier, fine, but if not, make an appointment with yourself to handle them. Get the storage equipment, bags, or shelving needed to corral (if not eliminate) the problem.

I have one question: What is harder than doing all this work yourself–even after designing such great routines?

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Feb 28

Week Six: Riding into the Future

The drill is ROUTINE by now: maintain your routine weekly schedule, doing deep cleaning tasks from the perpetual calendar.

If you have also be doing 1) reading about how to clean and 2) weekly evaluations of how things are going in your real world, you’ve probably done a lot of tweaking to your routine plan and how you work that plan.

If you are looking forward to apprentices shouldering responsibility, then it’s  time to think about when and how you will work yourself out of a cleaning job. Read more

Feb 26

Week Five: Testing the Deep Cleaning Chart

After all the long, arduous instructions to build the calendar, this week is a breeze: just begin doing what is on the deep cleaning chart by your preferred method.

Of course, you need to decide on a plan to do the deep cleaning tasks as well as the routine cleaning.

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