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Mom Can I Help Around the House: A Simple Step by Step System for Teaching Your Children Life Long Skills for Pitching in and Picking up
Includes 133 page workbook and 1 hand-held chore binder
IMAGINE … your child saying to you, “Mom, can I help around the house?” This complete family chore system empowers children age 5-18 to do their fair share—while teaching essential life-skills like responsibility, self-sufficiency, confidence, and a sense of belonging in the family.
“You cannot truly gain control of your home and achieve an organized lifestyle if your children are a part of the problem and not an active and consistent part of the solution!”
In this two-component system, you will learn to:
• Fairly delegate household tasks age-appropriately
• Reduce stress by developing easy systems and routines for home maintenance
• Increase your child’s self-esteem and self-sufficiency
• Discover the most effective motivators and consequences to empower your children to cheerfully contribute to your home.
• Save the hours that you used to spend nagging your kids and doing all the work yourself
• Get everyone on board to maintain and take pride in an organized and clutter-free home
COMPONENT #1: How-to Workbook
• 133–page spiral-bound workbook chock full of forms, templates, worksheets, and step-by-step instructions for setting up your family’s chore system. Dimensions: 8 1/2” x 11”
• Comprehensive inventory of every possible household task for easy planning and assignment of age-appropriate chores for all family members
• Age-appropriate chore inventory and guidelines drawn from experts
COMPONENT #2: Hand-held Chore Binder
• One hand-held poly-construction “In My Family Everyone Works Together” chore binder containing more than 90 chore/task cards
• A supply of blank cards to add your own chores
• 8 bright-colored tab dividers for assigning chores by day of week, weekend and occasional/seasonal
What Parents and Experts Are Saying:‘The Mom, Can I Help Around the House?’ system works wonderfully for my family. Now I don’t have to continuously badger my girls about what needs to be done … they have it all in their chore binders. It gives them such a sense of ownership and responsibility, not to mention how much it helped me! I wish we had done this years ago … but it’s never too late!
~ Mary Delaney, wife & mother of three (ages 8,12 & 16)
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“Janet has been helping my family get organized most of this year, so I was thrilled to learn that she created a system for teaching my children to contribute at home. It was such a time-saver to have a system that was already created, tested by a professional organizer and by other moms, rather than trying to create a system for our family from scratch.”
~ Laura Biddle-Bruckman
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“I wish I had this book 10 years ago! I can’t count the number of parents who have complained to me about their children and chores.Chores are a major source of stress in even the happiest of families. When I provided therapy for children, I wished I had a resource like ‘Mom, Can I Help Around the House?’ Parents need answers and a method to follow to motivate their children for good behavior. Janet Nusbaum’s ‘Mom, Can I Help Around the House?’ system provides answers for distraught parents. Janet’s no-nonsense approach leads to calmer homes, decreased conflict, and most importantly, a feeling of responsibility and confidence in your children. I have worked with literally hundreds of children in my career and often wished that their parents had tools like this to teach them confidence and responsibility.
If you want help teaching your children critical life skills like responsibility, self-sufficiency, confidence, teamwork, and self-discipline, then you owe it to yourself and your children to get the ‘Mom, can I help around the House?’ system.”
~ Leah R. Jackman-Wheitner, Ph.D.
Psychologist and Consultant
Author of Unlocking the Confidence Code: 5 Steps to Complete Core Confidence
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This 77-page information-packed e-book, written by Janet Nusbaum (AKA The Organizing Genie), is based on her work with hundreds of frazzles families as a Professional Organizer since 2004, and her popular classes and presentations about clearing the clutter and simplifying life. In her new book, Janet discusses the home management secrets and organizing strategies that she feels are musts for effectively and efficiently managing a home (regardless of family size & dynamics) with the goal of calming the chaos in your home and simplifying life for all who share the space.
In this information-packed e-book, you’ll learn:
- how to identify clutter in your life – physical or mental
- how to determine your “whys” for getting organized
- how to determine your organizational goals for your home and family
- how to break through information overload and take action
- Janet’s signature 13 must-do home organization strategies
- the 5 essential home management systems no home should be without
- how to immediately identify where to place your stuff for efficient access
- and so much more!
BONUS: Shelf-Life Guide for 100+ Common Household Items
BONUS: A Parents Guide To Medicine Safety
