today it looks like a tornado went
through our house so I'm gonna share
with you five tips on keeping your kids
motivated and how to have fun while
getting your chores done
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hey folks welcome back to the vlog we
are just getting home from our
fellowship meeting today and this is a
little bit embarrassing but the week got
away from us
and the house is a mess I'm hesitant to
show you guys but I figured there's
something that we can all learn in this
come check it out and we'll see how we
can fix the problem
[Music]
I promise you we're not normally
complete slobs there's actually a story
behind every little mess that we create
in our lives messes just show us that
life is happening in our house or in
your house in fact normally our house is
pretty clean I'm a little bit of a neat
freak so today we're gonna get back in
balance we're gonna clean the house and
I'll show you how we get our kids
involved for us how do things get so
messy in here this week I don't know you
want to tell me the story about about
this bowl on the floor of your bedroom
bedtime snacks last night yeah okay
and as you what's the story behind this
bowl of bad Joseph what's going on with
this cat food someone knocked over I
think it might have been me so you
should cleaned up you think so yeah
Lindsay even our house is a mess right
now I want to emphasize this is not a
representation of how you normally run
our household thank you for saying that
it happens sometimes though
so you have a lot to manage with five
kids five dirty boys six thirty boys if
you include me but I'm curious for the
sake of our viewers what's your
philosophy on household cleaning and
duties trying to teach the boys
responsibility to clean up after
themselves when they're real young like
about two years old they really enjoy
working and just trying to encourage
that while they're young so that as they
grow up they enjoy it it's not always
easy to keep them going with chores and
cleaning and responsibilities but we try
to keep them motivated and motivation is
the most important factor here we don't
have an allowance we don't pay our
children to work for us or to do chores
it's just part of what's expected in our
home as part of our family we all have
different roles and responsibilities and
and we figured the boys are gonna need
to learn that at some point in their
life so why not start when they're young
but we do occasionally pay them for
special projects and for things that are
above and beyond what you might consider
to be a normal household duty or chore
and today is one of those days because
this is not normal and the boys have
been asking to do something special with
a few extra dollars that they might earn
so without further ado we're gonna clean
up the house I'm gonna give the boys a
few dollars and we'll show you at the
end of this video how they want to spend
it it's okay to live your life but don't
let the messes pile up so tip number one
- getting your kids involved in work and
making it fun is to use motivation boys
are you ready to get started
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tip number two is to assign each child
their own area or zone of the house
Joseph can you clean up the bedroom
please
yeah thank you first take out the trash
and then I want your zone to be there
laundry room as you're at your zone is
going to be the bathroom can you take
those towels and put them in the laundry
please
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so I made a mess with the cat food can
you please put it in the bowl
for me thanks buddy and this leads me to
tip number three which may be obvious
and goes without saying but be sure to
assign your children jobs or
responsibilities that are
age-appropriate and get all of your
children involved even the youngest ones
because if everyone can pitch in and
make the mess then certainly everyone
can pitch in and help to clean it up
okay tip number four it's important not
to get sucked into all of the individual
jobs and zones but it's better in my
opinion and in our experience to float
around and check in on everyone from
time to time to make sure they're on
task Joseph how are things going in here
buddy alright I'll come back and check
in in just a moment keep up the good
work and Ozzy are you finished in the
bathroom yeah okay why don't you go
check real quick to make sure you got
all the little scraps and I'll come look
at it in just a moment
how are things going so far going it
seemed to be going well yes one of the
downsides of living in a tiny space is
it gets messy really fast it gets messy
really or at least it appears to be
messy really fast because there's not a
lot of floor space but one of the
advantages is it doesn't take long to
clean so how long have we been cleaning
so far
ten minutes maybe five or ten minutes
and the house is already looking way
better and that leads me to tip number
five when everyone thinks they're done
cleaning up chances are there's still
some things hiding in the corner so tip
number five is to have your children go
back give them a number go find three
more things to put away and that will
always be a helpful thing to do as well
yes if you did a good job cleaning your
room I bet you can find five more things
to clean up boo there's a sock
and there's some toys hiding Ozzy's bed
and there's a Lego hiding over here too
okay so things are coming together and
just like always when we get to the end
of the project everyone sort of fizzles
out a little bit so I got a bonus tip
for you which is to use a timer to get
everyone's super motivated towards the
end all right guys here's the deal if
you guys can get the rest of the house
tidied up in the next five minutes
you're gonna get a bonus I'll set the
timer now
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you guys did a great job cleaning up
just in the nick of time so we're gonna
have some honey popcorn and now do you
want to tell them what you're gonna do
with your money
I'm working a sponsor an orphan in
Africa
oh that sounds very nice so the other
day we took the boys to a presentation
about orphans in other countries that
was put on by compassion International
the boys decided that they wanted to
sponsor a child somewhere in the world
and we have some friends who work at an
organization called Christian Aid
ministries I'll leave a link for the
organization in the description below
and in addition to sponsoring a child
through Christian Aid ministries you can
do a number of sponsorships from
sponsoring a well to sponsoring a widow
sponsoring a refugee or someone who's
being persecuted in their country and
this could be a way for you to get your
kids motivated to work around the house
especially if they know that their hard
work and some of the money that they're
earning is being put to good use by
helping someone else so that's what
we're gonna do now and we'll update you
on this maybe in a couple of weeks on
the vlog but until then we love you guys
god bless you and we'll see you next
time