Chore Packs and a New Beginning

 

 

 

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

⁹ And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast ^[a]about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. ¹⁰ Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with ^[b]insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong. 

 

 

 

 

Hello, Hello.....wow, what a busy day it has been.  I hope that this day find you all doing well and being blessed.  Today I'll make it a short post, I just wanted share a minute a big change taking place in the Morrow home.  I have decided that I am not disciplined enough to do a regular chore chart, so a wonderful homeschooling mom friend shared some of this wonderful information with me.  It's called a chore pack...the kids wear it all day till their chores are complete.  In essence it removes the monkey off your back and teaches your kids responsibility.  With proper training of the chores of course, they can then take on the responsibility of knowing what to do, how to do it properly and without me going "Did you do your chores yet?"  500 times over.  Now don't get me wrong, our kids always have helped around the house and what not, but never on a continual basis.  The family who started this amazing system are the Maxwells, their ministry is called Titus 2.  So first props go to them, thanks for the wonderful book, supplies and bounds of information you have researched and provided with your book.  Here are a few of the things I took away from the program that was huge for me.

 This is all from the book, I take no credit for this information

Homemaking 101 starts with asking the Lord for direction and help, he will give us the resources we require.  He allows us to grow in organization abilities, patience, endurance and consistency. 

A Perfectionist mom will have difficulty in dealing with the chore standards she has set, for if she doesn't keep in mind the level of a child's ability, the child will never be able to please her.  This creates conflict between the both and a feeling of defeat in the child's heart.

The Perfectionist parent should learn that there is a balance in a home between a normal "lived-in" state and "everything always in its place" state. 

As we have said before, they are still children and will need years of training, coaching, reminding and consequences.  It will be a process as they grow.

CHIP is an example you should consider - cheerful, hardworking, impeccable and punctual.  You want the child to be a CHIPPer worker. 


Wow so very many things that I took away from this book.  Not just about chores, which was the main goal, but how so much of this paralleled with our relationship to the Lord.  You see as the scripture says at the top, I have so many weaknesses, but I am content with these weaknesses, because I know in the midst of them God is there guiding my every direction.  Maybe not with things to fix my weaknesses, but to help me, remove the added stresses of the thought of failure, He makes me strong in all that I do. 

There truly are so many things I can improve upon, especially with running a home.  You see I suffer from being a perfectionist parent.  I have always had a hard time in allowing my kids to do the things that I am teaching them without going behind them to make it perfect to my standard.  Ex...Kara making her bed and if it's not as straight as it could be I go behind and fix it, Chad folding a blanket and putting it away, but the blanket was not folded the way I see fit.  MISTAKE...HUGE...MISTAKE.  What am I teaching my kids and telling my husband I think of his quality of work???  That they will never measure up to my own selfish desires or expectations I have placed upon them.  No, No, No  I do not want that for my children or my spouse, so I am changing.  From this point forward, I will have to take on the mindset of teaching, not automatic correction.  This of course I will do with the kids, but the hubby on the other hand I will just have to give him a big ol' smoochie and a hug for at least taking the time to do something sweet for me that really helps out.

You know I have to think "What if God did that to me?"  If he automatically went behind me and always corrected everything that I did, what would I learn?  If I didn't have to go through the trials and tribulations in life, how could I grow?  How in the world would I grow in my relationship with him if he just always did everything for me?  Instead he has done what any parent would do.  He set forth my Destiny, he wrote the greatest Book ever to help teach me and guide me through my Destiny.  He has loved me through it all, the good, the bad, the ugly and the really ugly.  He never gave up on me, he just gently guided me back into the direction that I needed to be taking with some consequences to be be had because of my choices and with gentle instruction on the better way to do things.

So you know my approach to this whole chore thing...God's approach.  Hold their hands, guide them through it all.  The good, the bad, the ugly and the really ugly, all the while providing loving instruction and gentleness with their hearts.   That way the children that God has lovingly given to Chad and I, they will grow up and know exactly how very much Their Heavenly Father Loves them.  It all starts with Chores, what may seem so very hard to little people, that way the bigger stuff in life, may not be so tough to swallow. 

I choose to be a CHIPPer worker for God, how about you? 
        (cheerful, hardworking, impeccable and punctual)

P.S. I gotta work on the Cheerful part, when it comes to raking and blowing gumballs in the yard.....those little balls are deadly, I just know it!