Product Description
Even the most reluctant household helpers will be clamoring to clean with “The Chore Board”. Just pick a reward for each person, and then every job that is well-done moves the helper one step closer to the desired prize. A little motivation goes a long way! Jobs can involve cleaning, organizing, helping with younger siblings, or anything your family sees fit. 

About the Author
J.Otto Seibold has illustrated, and in some cases also written, fifteen books for children, including Olive, the Other Reindeer, Olive, My Love, Penguin Dreams, and the Mr. Lunch books. He lives in San Francisco. Sarah Malarkey works in publishing and lives in San Francisco with her husband and two little boys who enjoy vacuuming and weeding in their spare time.

My Review:  Making chores a game seems to be a great way to motivate children.  The game board and pieces for The Chore Board are magnetic, making it easy to put on your refrigerator or possibly a file cabinet.  The object of the game is for each child in the family to do chores each day for 29 days and then receive an agreed upon reward.  Really the way the game is created there are no “winners” or “losers.”  Everyone wins.  This could work, especially if the board is in front of the family each day.  Some spaces provide for jumping ahead a couple of spaces of more than one chore is completed.  Some spaces need questions answered.  These questions can be taken from your child’s school work.  I wish I would have had this when my children were growing up and I will recommend it to my student’s families as well as my daughter.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 at 12:00 am

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