Incorporating the Job Charts

So, yep, once again we are trying to use the job chart system at our house. This time I set it up and told the kids that if they completed at least 6 out of 7 days on average for 4 weeks, that they would get a special treat at the end of the month.

Micah wants to watch a "big kid movie", Caleb wants the sheet music to Star Wars, Jewelia wants a little Princess Leia figurine, and Troy wants a hard drive. (Of course, I don't think the hard drive fits in with the other small rewards, so we'll see!)

Now, we have only had 1 day of the job chart, and as you can see, SOME people are doing their jobs (Daddy!!!! Ha haaa!!! You slacker!! Well, I excuse you for one day---you had to do some work from home. I still love you!), but there is one major thing that isn't getting accomplished;

LISTENING!--This isn't exactly a job, but I put this on the bottom of the kids charts to see if I could get them to listen better. Obviously this isn't working yet. I don't know about the rest of you, but I have the hardest time getting the kids to listen to anything I say. Especially when it is bed time. It literally takes over an hour to get the kids in bed from the time I start saying "get your jammas on, brush your teeth, go to bed". Or rather, anything else takes at least 2-10 times repeating before they do it. It's been driving me crazy, so I added it to the job chart.

Now, I do have chances with the listening job. I give them 3 chances, or strikes in a sense. They can ignore me, or choose to not do whatever 3 times. But after 3 strikes, that's it, and they don't get to put a star on the listening job.

So, is it working you ask? Well, by looking at the job chart it does not look very good so far! We will have to see what today and the rest of the week looks like.