I often mention our “morning routine”. This is something we do pretty much every day with little deviation. We have a checklist posted for the boys to refer to. I often have them do one task, the come and ‘high-five’ me. This helps keep them on task.
Now that the boys are a little older (6 and 8), we can knock this out within an hour (assuming they stick to the tasks…), but this routine used to take a good part of the day in the early years!
-Breakfast/vitamins
-Brush teeth
-Hair
-Get dressed
-Make bed
-Clean room (as in tidy)
-Dishes (They empty and load)
-Cleaning ( I tidy kitchen, dining, living and family rooms. I wipe down kitchen sink and counters.)
-Clean bathroon (The boys wipe down sinks and counters. They alternate days who does the downstairs/upstairs)
-Sweep (I sweep kitchen and entry)
-Empty all trash baskets (The boys consolidate the small trash to the large kitchen one.)
-Laundry (The boys collect all laundry and sort them in piles in the laundry room.)
-Feed cat and water (the boys do this)/check/clean litter box (I do this)
After the morning routine, we begin homeschool lessons…