As nannies one of our jobs is to help guide children into being a responsible children and one way to do that is have them help with the household chores. Having them help you with maintaining the house gives them a sense of responsibility, pride and ownership in the things they can do and accomplish.
Over at A Life in Balance, is a great article on chore charts for kids. She shares a great way to get kids to remember their personal chores in the morning and evening. Tracing their hand and writing it down.
We have the morning set posted on the fridge and the evening set posted on the bedroom doors upstairs. My almost five year old asked to bring his morning one with him while he did his “jobs” which is why I think a smaller piece of paper might work better. In my copious free time, I think I’ll have the kids do their hands again on smaller paper, do the jobs again and then scan them into the computer for backup in case we lose a card.