Making it Work

Here is the Command Center of the home. The chart has chores for each child for 5 days/week. These chores are to be done for one month and then they are switched to the next child. This way each gets a chance to practice different jobs in the home. There are 3 chores listed on each small paper: after breakfast, after lunch, and before sleep. The two small chalkboards have each child's name listed. One is "Caught Ya" ( a check mark for doing something extraordinarily good and worth noting) ; the other chalkboard is BTHW (Big Trouble, Hot Water), which will be discussed with Daddy later in the evening.
The poster below has a list of the goals we're working on as a family. "Austinson Kingdom Relationships" is the title, and we add to the different areas of skill development goals and interpersonal relationship goals as the need arises or as we strengthen a specific area within our family. We review these goals on Monday mornings to make sure we all understand that there is a purpose for our lives and that Mommy and Daddy are bringing the family in a certain direction. The little sticky pads are for quotes and other interesting tidbits that go well with the goals for our family. The picture on the left is of an impoverished area in India. We posted it to remind ourselves that God is good to us. We also use that picture to understand why we choose to eat third world foods (as training for the boys' future) and why we work on self-denial.