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I am terrible about keeping up with things.   I have great ideas, and self-motivation to get them started, but I have terrible follow through.   I would like to have a clean house all the time, and I know what it takes to do it, I just don’t always have the follow through needed.   I know that I shouldn’t loose my temper with my children, but on some days, I just do…   My kids are the same way.   They will be very excited about an idea, but then lack the follow through.   My oldest daughter is in a 4-year-old kindergarten.   In this class, they get a prize every time they fill up a chart for being well behaved.   So what did I decide to do?   Why I made charts for home.   Only instead of doing just basic good behavior, I pin-pointed the types of behaviors that I wanted my children to do:   make the bed, clean the toy room, put their clothes away, wake up and get dressed without complaining…   When they fill up one column th...