The 21 rules of our home

Several years ago, our close family friend Pam gave me a copy of "The 21 rules of our home" by Gregg Harris. I was struggling with 4 kids under the age of 5. I wanted to teach my kids to pick up after themselves, but it was hard. I wanted to teach my kids how to follow the rules, but it was hard. I was kind of lost. What she gave me changed our family. The 21 rules of our home had pictures that we could copy, color, laminate and stick on our fridge or door. We picked 8-10 that we really wanted to focus on.

The great thing about this program was the pictures! Even a 2 year old can look at a picture and listen when you say "Do you see this? This is what you did, and we do not do that". When we first started, we picked one rule a week to work on. The kids colored thier own copy and put in a notebook. For the kids who could write, they would write it out as well. For the kids who could not write, they would just color while we talked about the rule.

We have continued to use these for almost 10 years.

I also have a small clipboard that I use for my grocery shopping, on that, I keep small pictures of the rules so that the younger kids can be reminded, when needed of how we act when we are not at home.

Here are a few more close ups of the rules we have hanging:

Even Emma, who is almost 3, understands these. Here is the link to Gregg Harris, where you can find a copy of the rules, in sentence form.

http://greggharrisblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/21-rules-of-this-house-by-gregg-harris.html

You can probably find the book, with pictures on Amazon for fairly cheap. For us, the 21 rules of our home are the rules to live by! They saved my sanity while my children were younger and I still use them today! (Gregg Harris, if you find this blog, THANK YOU and feel free to send me free stuff)

All pictures and rules came from the 21 rules of this home by Gregg Harris. Please do not copy them, as they are copyright protected.