Who has used Motivated Moms and how has it been going?

[Prairie~Phlox]

I've had a chance to spend some time cleaning the house and I'm wondering if this would be a good year to start. Anyone else use it?

 

Comments on it?

I thought it was more than $8.00, but that's what it is this year.

 

Thanks,

Phlox

[Tammy]

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[Prairie~Phlox]

Information is here: http://www.motivatedmoms.com/

 

:D

[LaxMom]

:lurk5:

[G5052]

It's not as detailed as some, but it will keep your house basically clean and decent. My children receive chores from it in their assignment book each day.

[Tammy]

I can't seem to pull up the sample page....can anyone else? I wanted to see what it looked like.

[LaxMom]

I can't seem to pull up the sample page....can anyone else? I wanted to see what it looked like.

If you go to the order page, down at the bottom, the sample page links work. I got a 404 error trying to look at the one on the "about us" page.

[Michelle T]

I think it's great, I just never really stick with it. I'm basically too lazy! But if you follow their schedule, your house will be clean and decent all the time, and it really only takes a short time each day.

Michelle T

[skylark]

I'm going to check it out, sounds like something I need!

[Tammy]

Thanks....that helps a lot!

[Ferdie]

I tried it a few years ago. I like how the chores were broken down to a manageable size and I like that they had different chores on different days, which made for a nice variety.

 

On the downside I had trouble communicating to my kids what their chores were each day. For example, on one week they had you clean a toilet on T but two week later it was on a Th. So trying to track my kids down after a full day of hs to communicate the chores for the day didn't work for us.

 

I switched to a weekly checklist where my kids do the same chores on the same day each week which works better for us.

[LaxMom]

I think we're planning to make the "investment" - $8, if it turns out to be drek, it won't hurt our self esteem too badly. ;)

 

Anyone else? And would anyone be interested in, say, a weekly check-in to see how it's working, what adaptations have been made, etc?

[Mekanamom]

I've had a chance to spend some time cleaning the house and I'm wondering if this would be a good year to start. Anyone else use it?

 

Comments on it?

I thought it was more than $8.00, but that's what it is this year.

 

Thanks,

Phlox

 

 

I love it- started using it a year and a half ago. Like anything else, make sure it's serving you and not the other way around. I will sometimes go for a week with nothing checked off at all, and just start again, wherever I am on the calendar.

 

I have the full sized sheet with the whole week on it, posted on the fridge so the whole family can see what needs to be done. (Certain chores are assigned to my kids; sharing the work in daily bite-sized chunks makes it very do-able.)

[phathui5]

And would anyone be interested in, say, a weekly check-in to see how it's working, what adaptations have been made, etc?

 

I would be in.

[LaxMom]

Oh. No. I'm sorry. I've been watching your progress and I can't keep up with you. :D

 

(and by that I mean, "Excellent! Your fabulous progress will keep me from being lazy!"

[Oak Knoll Mom]

We've started and quit using this several times now. :-) That has more to do with me than with MM, though. I restarted in late November and have kept up with it for five weeks now...a record for me!

 

I've made a few adaptations that really seem to work for my family. I printed out the whole year and put it in a three ring binder along with the meal planning sheets and calendar pages you can print from their site. I take a month at a time and black out anything that doesn't apply to us, highlight my chores in pink, and then I have each child pick their chores for that month and highlight them in their specified color. For right now the kids have to pick two daily chores (which they keep for two weeks at a time) and three weekly chores. We rotate who gets to pick his chores first so that the "fun" chores rotate between them. :-)

 

We do all the daily chores before school and the weekly chores right after lunch. We don't always get to the weekly chores on the day they are assigned, but we do try to make sure they are done by Friday afternoon. Any of my weekly chores that aren't done by Friday afternoon get marked and I try to get to them the following week if I have time or I offer it to one of the boys as a paid chore if it's something they can do on their own.

 

I'm loving Motivated Moms!