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The haircut pictures aren't uploaded yet so....going along with yesterday's theme of Max going stir-crazy here's another post. You can probably tell that I've been thinking a lot lately about how to keep Max occupied, productively. I think that we don't give him enough stuff to do, like tasks that he feels are important and so he gets bored sometimes and acts out. Maybe. That's just one theory.
I know Max looks angelic in all these pictures, and so maybe it's hard for some of you to believe that he can be a bum, but believe me--he can be REALLY bummy if he wants to.
So anyway, I've been racking my brains trying to come up with tasks he can do that challenge him a little bit and that might be slightly helpful for the household. That's tough. So far I've come up with one task. Putting away the silverware from the dishwasher.

In my household growing up this was always a task that was given to the youngest person in the family, as long as they were big enough to actually do it. In fact, I remember doing it when I was really small. I enjoyed the sorting aspect of it.

I'm not sure how Max feels about it. I think he likes feeling important and useful,
but he doesn't bother to concentrate long enough to make sure that each piece ends up in the right spot. I think he's just a little lazy. But we have a good time. I just have to remind him what he's doing every two seconds. I think (and hope) it'll get better with time.

So it seems to me that it's about time to be trying to teach him a little responsibility. I probably should've been doing this long ago. We're going to try to work up a small chore chart with stickers, something that he can see his progress on, so he can feel like he's accomplishing something.
Any suggestions from you people out there? What are some other tasks or activities I could use? What can a almost 4 yr old really do that's even slightly useful to the household, or is all the benefit just to him? Help me out here!