Kids and Chores

So I know I promised the other part of my trip but I had to post this. We have been trying to teach our kids responsibility and helping out. Each day they have an assigned chore and at night the have an after dinner job. Sometimes getting them to do these jobs is really hard and sometimes the quality of the work is not great and you just have to redo it but I keep reminding myself it's the process that is important. Well tonight I was flying solo but I really wanted them to get back in the habit of doing jobs. They were actually eager to them which was helpful. Jocelyn was assigned to rinse the dinner dishes. Jocelyn loves to play in water but the second she gets her clothes wet she freaks out. I wondered how long it would take tonight before that happened. Not long. First time she got water on her shirt, off came the shirt.Well it didn't take long for the pants to get wet. Next went the pants. So there my happy little dish rinser stood in the kitchen, rinsing the dishes in her underwear. The underwear picture didn't turn out for some reason so I won't be sharing the that one. In the meantime, Jackson my table clearer had dutifully been full filling his job until he came across the oven mitts. Suddenly I had football plays being run through the family room. Apparently the oven mitts inspired our budding football player.
Kelsey was just enjoying good food and great entertainment.

As I watched this circus go on I just had to laugh to think it's amazing what can transpire as we try to urge our children to do chores. The dishes sort of got rinsed, the table got cleared for the most part and I got some interesting entertainment out of all of it. I guess it was a success for all.