Today I am reviewing a product that has been helping families get organized together since 1990. It’s called Creative Changes, and they offer a great selection of chore charts and other organizational aides that are specifically designed to get your children involved in helping with home management.
I specifically remember when my parents realized a parenting mistake they had been making and their attempts (which were largely in vain, I’m sad to say) to correct them. I was 10 and my brother was 12. And that’s how old we were when my parents decided that we should get involved in helping keep the house up. Yup….our very first chores were given to us that late in the game. It didn’t go over well. We had no idea why we would be needed to help with things like vacuuming and taking out the trash. That had ALWAYS been done for us.
The chore implementation never really did go smoothly. We started helping out more around the house, but not because my parents were able to successfully hand off any of the chores. We would do what they asked when they got too fed up and yelled for someone to do something NOW! That’s pretty much how it worked.
I definitely don’t want that to be how things go in my house. But if I don’t teach Darah from a young age that she has responsibilities as a member of the house, it will be all too easy for me to take the same path my parents took and just keep doing it all myself.
That’s why I’m glad for companies like Creative Changes and their chore charts that have been working for decades. While Darah is too young to use these charts, it has inspired me to already start talking with her about putting away toys when we are finished, and how cleaning up is an important element on choosing to play with something.
The Creative Changes charts are easy to stick on the refrigerator and make use of dry erase markers so you can re-use them again and again. They make use of pictures to help little ones know what their chores are on any given day. You can also use stickers to help kids get closer to their incentive (if you choose to use incentives as part of your chore assignments).
I will say that the Creative Changes website is in pretty desperate need of an overhaul. It looks very dated, and the commercial on the site looks straight out of 1990. I’d love to see this updated so that potential customers aren’t scared away. It’s fine for a product to be useful for so long, but the marketing techniques need to be changed to speak to new generations of parents! I’ve seen these products firsthand, and want to encourage you not to be dissuaded by the antique look of the site. The charts, themselves, are really helpful and worthwhile, I promise!
Buy it!: You can pick up the Rewarding Kids Responsibility Kit for just $24.95. I think it is money well-spent if you maintain the discipline to really implement it with your kids. You will get some much-needed help around the house, and your kids will start to take on more ownership and pride in how their home looks. They will also develop good habits that their future spouses will thank you for!
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Disclosure: I received a complimentary product for review purposes. The opinions expressed here are strictly my own.
Picking up toys!!! I would give anything for someone to help me pick up toys.
Laundry please ….
dishes!
I want help poop scooping the yard.
id love a little help with everything im sick of having to ask my kids to do something 5 times 🙁
I’d love to get help with the dishes!
The dishes! We always seem to have a ton of those.
theremustbmore@aol.com
Cleaning the bathrooms! Ugh! Thanks!
itlnprncss29@aol.com
laundry!!
ardelong2(at)gmail(dot)com
Laundry! Please someone help me!
I would love to get help with Laundry!!
Cleaning the shower I hate it!
I would love to get help keeping the toy room clean
I would love to have help with the mounds of laundry my family of five accumulates.
Thank you for the entry
LAUNDRY!
I hate cleaning the shower….I would love some help with that!
I would like help with dishes!
Cleaning up after themselves in the bathroom! It never fails right after they leave to school there is toothpaste everywhere, water everywhere, and clothes on the floor.
I hate doing laundry and could use help!
Cassie
cjm92995@yahoo.com
The chore I would most like help with is laundry!
I could use help with the dishes, and laundry
Seriously need more help with cleaning the bathrooms! Every time I mention chores and bathroom in the same breath, my kids scatter.
Cleaning the bathrooms!
Laundry!
I would love to have help with general pickup, toys, clothes and everything else. I wonder if this would work with the husband too.
Picking up toys!!!
Folding laundry
Dishes
I’d love to have help with vacuuming!
renfie.fields@gmail.com
With 4 boys….the bathroom, always the bathroom 🙂
I would love for my kids to sweep under the breakfast table every morning because the crumbs are unreal!
I would love if they put their own clothes away and if my daughter actually cleaned her bathroom! Thanks so much for the fantastic giveaway!
Renee Walters
Bored2quickly@hotmail.com
picking up toys
The chore I most need help with is keeping toys put away in the right place. Our house gets overrun by them quickly!
I hate the dishes!!!
cleaning the bathroom!
The sweeping, mopping, dishes, and of course cleaning up the toys.
I really need help for the oldest one who is a teen……reminded HIM to look at the chart. Teen…need I say more?????
I would love help folding laundry!
I’d love to get help with putting clothing away.
jtmagmom73(at)gmail(dot)com
My 13 month old helps unload the dishwasher.
The other two Hate cleaning.. as I do..lol
laundry
thank you
tatertot374@sbcglobal.net
Id say the laundry or the dishes.
Laundry and putting the clothes away. Oh and cleaning up her toys/mess.
kport207 at gmail dot com
help with laundry and pets!
Cleaning up their bedroom!
I’d love help with picking up the kids’ rooms.
I would love to get help with the laundry! Folding and washing:) The dishes too!
I will be thrilled when my daughter is old enough to empty the cats’ litter boxes!!! She helps feed and water them now, but, you know, not having to do the stinky job would be GREAT!
i would love to get help with the laundry!
picking up toys
Taking out the trash
I’d love to get help with the dishes!
Sophia already helps me with putting the dishes away from the dishwasher. She hands me the plates and I put them up. I definitely want to implement chores at an early age!
Cleaning their rooms
vmkids3 at msn dot com
I’d love to get help with Picking up!
I’d love some help with Laundry!
Laundry!
laundry! help!!!!
Laundry!
Putting their clean clothing away.
Cleaning up toys! 🙂