Child Labor Part 2

Chilihead gave us a blog challenge on how you manage the chores for the kids. She obviously didn't read my child labor management post about this very issue.
My boys are 8, 7, and 3.
I will highlight what I started and give you an update on my failed attempt success.

-Instead of delegating out the chores, I let them volunteer what chore they wanted to do.

-I gave each child thorough on the job training for a couple of days so they would know what is expected of them.

-Once they got the routine down, I used my reverse psychology powers to let them know they are the boss of their job. I advised them they could delegate assistance when needed, but I would not interfere on the job or in other words nag.

-The pay is 50 cents per chore. This was C.'s plan as he's the CFO of the "company".

My results so far haven't been a rousing success. I blame the return of school and homework and extra curricular activities.
They were very gungho at first and liked the idea of being their own boss and expert of their job. They also liked the idea of picking the jobs they wanted to do. This also worked well when they complained as I would casually bring up the fact that they picked it so deal with it. I did mention a promotion to them where they could advance to another chore and then train the younger brother on their old job.

They are expected to keep their room clean no matter what and to remove their dirty dishes from the table when finished eating. Were still a work in progress on this. They also are assigned additional chores for punishment. Yeah were the child slave labor types around here. That's really the extent of the chore thing. I look forward to everyone elses brilliant methods at Chilihead's place.

The Hillbilly Monkey's

What do you get when you have 3 hillbilly monkeys and a visit to the neighbors house? Chaos

I went for a visit to my second childhood's family's house yesterday and thought it very wise to only bring the youngest hillbilly monkey along. A person can only stand to endure so much chaos at someone else's house. My children don't get out to visitin' much. The only people they really ever see is their grandparents and their other grandma. Yesterday I wasn't in the mood for proper visitin' etiquette so I left the two older monkeys at grandmas.

Well my cunning plan didn't quite go through. After bossyboy was showed up by a much cuter younger little girl, who showed him who really was the boss, he was ready to go back to grandma's. So she took him back as I stayed to visit and not 5 minutes later my 2 older hillbilly monkeys came knocking on the neighbor's door. When I say hillbilly and monkey together this is the picture I want you to envision; barefooted dirty children who bombard a strangers house by attacking all the toys the minute they walk in the door and run around like crazed monkeys. You would have thought it was Christmas morning and they had never in their life seen toys before. Needless to say I turned 13 shades of red. Who's crazy children are these?

I immediately had to round up my crew and make a swift exit. I know if I would have stayed a minute longer somebody would have been swinging off those fancy spinning things that hang from the ceiling.

Sorry L. for the chaos that ensued. This is what you get when you have 3 boys who obviously did not get any type of shy/reserved traits from me.