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My Job Chart review

By Jenn
27
Apr
2010

A while back, I was asked to participate in a review of the online tool called My Job Chart. Marketing with Moms was offering a $10 gift card to anyone who participated and I figured we could use a new tool to keep our crazy household on track, plus, we love Target.

Well, anyone who is familiar with our family knows that plans often don’t work out. I want to thank MWM because I got the gift card right away. However we just didn’t find the time or find that the job chart program was going to work for us.

My youngest could care less about doing chores or the rewards that can come with doing them. She did not get excited about this new tool at any point. Despite the fact that she can have her own photo attached to  her tasks in our account, she didn’t care.  She’s a camera hound, so this surprised me some. But keep reading to see our Target shopping trip photos.

My oldest thinks she too good for this kind of stuff and to be honest, getting her to do something on a schedule is like pulling teeth. She’ll take the trash out when asked, but other than that, forget about it.

So, let me just list some of the benefits of the program that I was hopeful about even though we didn’t get to use them.

As the mom(or dad) you get a log in to the entire account and can set up profiles for everyone in the household. I could see this being used a group or work account as well.

Each profile (your kids, hubby, ect) get their own login and can update the tasks as they get done.  This seems good becaus they can update their own jobs while you aren’t there to do it. Lets say you are at work, you’ll get an email when they update their session.

Each profile gets their own photo. You can assign whatever points value you want for each task and you decide what rewards each person gets for tasks done.

There are video tutorials that help you figure out how to use each tool.

Here’s the best part. It’s FREE!

So, while we didn’t get much use out of the My Job Chart site, I think most other people could.  It did provide a fun shopping trip for my daughter and I and I have funny photos to prove it.  So, once again, thanks to Marketing with Moms for the gift card.

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Can’t you get some time for you kids? revisited

By Jenn
02
Apr
2010
The more things change, the more they stay the same. My ex’s job has changed so many times I’ve lost track. The time he’s able to spend with the girls seems to dwindle more and more over time.  Here’s a post from last year on a particularly frustrating weekend. Things are still the same even though the job is different.
 
 
I’m sitting here at close to 6 pm on Sunday. My head is swimming alternately with it feeling like someone poured lead into my right side ear. So, the right side of my head feels very heavy and there is internal pressure and every once in a while my whole head tilts without my telling it to.  

I’m sitting here because the girls’ dad never picked them up. first it was Friday afternoon, then it was early Saturday morning, then it was this morning, and he called about a half hour ago to say he was finally back in town and would be here soon. He went back to truck driving cross country several months ago and it has been a disaster ever since.   Between 3 different companies, no one could get him home when they said they would. He hasn’t been here to help with the girls or give my mom and I a break that we both need.  

I feel a little tiny bit guilty here, because I know there are a ton of other parents out there who do not get a break. But this is about me and my family. they can vent on their own blogs, right? 

  Anyway, as much as it annoys the hell out of me to get screwed out of my weekend plans, it is harder on Nove Mber. She feels her emotions on a much more base level and instead of getting angry or disappointed over him not being  here when he says he will, she just doesn’t want anything to do with him. 

  Can’t blame her. It’s how I feel too. However, I know this is a reaction to the schedule being so chaotic for several months, because before this, she loved going with her dad on the weekends. He was the fun one, the playful one. He got to be super dad. Yeah, that pissed me off too. He got all the fun and I had to be the one with discipline and rules and schedules to meet.   Not fair. and I’m feeling it. and so is she.  

I think I will end this before he gets here and I tear him a new…. well, you know. I’m so angry and hurt for Nove, that I could just cry. Not to mention my own feelings.

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