My friend Nikki gave me some inspiration for helping with chores through her blog (which you can find here). We decided to scrap the whole chore chart thing. I honestly hated the chore charts. I love that I can teach my children about earning money and saving for things instead. We had a lot of fun this week passing out paper money and the boys were extra helpful with their chores.
I liked how Nikki doesn't take away money for bad behavior... she's right, that's no fun! Of course I had to motivate them a occassionally to keep trying to earn money (especially since they hadn't been shopping at our fun store yet). Overall, I just LOVE this idea! We will definitely be doing this every week!
This week we had things like silly putty, hot wheels, stickers, glue sticks, and most definitely a treat or two:)
I enjoyed watching them count their money:)
(by the way... that's Ethan's poor busted lip :( . He slipped in the kitchen a couple days ago and I thought it would be a trip to urgent care, but thankfully it has been healing quickly!)
I found the template for the play money on the stinky kids web page. Check it out!
3 comments:
Yay! I'm so glad this is working for you! I never even got so far as to make a chore chart. Different things need done on different days, ya know!?
I forgot to mention my one rule about Mom Bucks: No asking for Mom Bucks!! They are not allowed to ask or pester me for a Mom Buck for any reason. :)
Awesome, they'll learn fast !
Wow!!! $5 for a candy bar?? I won't be shopping with you anytime soon. Or maybe that was your intent so they wouldn't choose the sugar! Hee Hee. Love the idea. Looks like fun!
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