I was sitting outside when one of the kids ask me who gets to sit in the front seat of the car on the next time out. I told him to go check the chart and while he was went to check I started thinking about how our entire life is charts, charts and more charts. We have charts for almost everything we do. Most of them have been made to schedule our daily lives and to stop fighting and arguing among the kids. I wonder how many families with kids live day by day with charts. We would probably be lost without ours. I believe planning and being prepared is important but it amazes me at the number of charts we actually use on a daily basis.
Some of the charts we use are…
- Reading charts
- Chore charts
- Riding in the front seat chart
- Menu chart
- Who-says-the-blessing-tonight chart
- Baseball practice and games chart
- School work chart
- Phonics chart
- Behavior chart
- What’s the weather chart
- After dinner clean-up chart
- Bible reading chart
- Daily, weekly and monthly cleaning chart
These charts help with organization and promotes responsibility. You can customize charts to age so everyone can use them. They have helped my younger kids learn the order of the days of the week and how to read them. They can also read most words on these charts like menu items and holidays.
I made some of our charts with excel but others I found online for free. They make our days move smoother and less stressful.
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