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Help With ChoreMonster Point Values
Photo credit: Lotus Carroll / Foter / CC BY-NC-SA We get loads of questions from parents asking how to assign the correct point values for chores. This is something that has no set rules, and you have...
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Five Things Dad really wants for Fathers Day
Photo credit: henry… / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND It’s just about time for Fathers Day again and it can be really tough to shop for Dad. If you watch television, you probably think all Dad wants is a new...
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Send Your Kids To Summer Camp
Photo credit: Christiana Care / Foter / CC BY-NC-SA Summer Camps. They’ve been around forever and are still going strong through most of the country. Have you ever sent your kids off to a camp? If...
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What Todd Frazier and my son taught me about being generous
AP Photo/Jeff Roberson I’m taking a quick break today from talking about ChoreMonster to tell a story and brag on my son. I know that I’ve used this blog at times to talk about the more difficult...
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5 Ways To Make Your Back To School Transition Easier
Photo credit: Elizabeth/Table4Five / Foter / CC BY It’s that time of the year again, time for the kids to go back to school. There are plenty of parents that treat the beginning of the school year as...
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3 Ways Technology Is Changing Your Child’s Back To School Experience
As the kids head back to school for another year of learning and waking up incredibly early, we thought it would be interesting to take a peek into how technology is changing schools. After all, it’s...
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Because I Said So!
Photo credit: jasonbolonski / Foter / Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) Some time ago I wrote about positive reinforcement in the home and how important it can be. I have some...
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If you’re using ChoreMonster points as a bribe, you’re doing it wrong
Photo credit: NickNguyen / Foter / Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) One thing we hear from time to time at ChoreMonster when explaining our product is ‘Well, I...
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ChoreMonster Pumpkin Carvers
It’s officially October and is finally starting to look like the fall season is upon us. One of the things that is always a really great fall tradition is pumpkin carving with your family. I know it’s...
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His, Hers, Ours and Christmas
(Yep, that’s my family) It’s been too long since I’ve shared some step-parenting thoughts, but with the holidays upon us, I thought it would be a good time to do so this week. If you are a...
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New Years Chore Resolutions
Photo credit: Stuck in Customs / iWoman / CC BY-NC-SA It’s the first month of the new year, and that means lots of us are thinking about how we can tackle 2016. We want to put our best foot forward,...
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Get Rid Of Your Kids Stuff
Photo credit: Angie [A Whole Lot of Nothing] / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND With the Christmas season in our rearview mirrors, many parents are now looking to clean things up. That can mean several things, but...
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5 Great Snow Day Activities For Kids
Photo credit: horizontal.integration / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA You know how it goes, the kids have a long weekend or a holiday break from school and suddenly it’s followed up with a snow day. The...
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Book Review – All Joy And No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Here at ChoreMonster, you know we are big fans of reading. We’ve focused on encouraging kids to read and recommended reading to your kids aloud. And we’ve even reviewed a bunch of kid’s books here on...
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Family March Madness Bracket Challenge
Image courtesy of Mollysabourin.com It’s that time of the year again! Not the time when you go crazy because your kids can go outside again and are tracking a little bit of everything back into your...
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Help With ChoreMonster Point Values
Photo credit: Lotus Carroll / Foter / CC BY-NC-SA We get loads of questions from parents asking how to assign the correct point values for chores. This is something that has no set rules, and you have...
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Planning For Your Family’s Future
Parents, you work hard at planning: ChoreMonster, practice schedules, meal planning . . . . in fact sometimes all the planning can feel overwhelming. So many of us get so wrapped up in planning the...
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When Chores Are The Law
This week, while bouncing around the web from site to site, I ran across an interesting news item. The story is about how in Spain, children being required to do chores may soon be passed into law....
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Why You Can’t Take Away ChoreMonster Points
Photo credit: Lotus Carroll via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA One of the most common feature requests or changes we have heard since ChoreMonster started, and that we continue to hear, is one that we will...
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