With each new season I find that I have to reassess what sort of chores we are all doing and whether or not the plan we have going is working.  Right now we have a considerable amount of yard clean-up to do.  Getting the flower beds ready for the winter, raking up all the  leaves, doing one last mowing of the lawn.  Or at least my kids are hoping that it is only one last mowing of the lawn.  We need to put away all of the garden tools so that we can find them next year and get the winter supplies out for the season.  A season I am dreading.

I have gotten a little bit of a bad attitude from a couple of my kids. And I am not talking about the oldest ones who probably do more chores around here unasked than the rest of the kids.  Nope, it is the younger ones. 

This has led me to believe that: 1) They have been getting off too easy if they are going to complain so mightily about raking out a  flower bed.  2) If you are old enough to complain, you are old enough to do the job.  and 3) You might need even more chores to help adjust that bad attitude.

So we are working on doing chores with a good attitude now.  The added perk, for them, being that once the leaves are all raked up they can jump in the pile.  The pay off at the end.