Every day she is responsible for making her bed, feeding Wrigley (mostly in the evening), setting the dinner table, and cleaning up the play room. At least once a week, she needs to help out by cleaning some of the windows, a chore she actually loves to do!
If she successfully completes all of her chores every day, after 7 days, she will earn $1. I created a chore chart, which hangs in her room, to help us keep track of which chores she completed and which day we were on. Every night, before bed, she checks off her chores.
And if she does something really bad, such as telling a lie or
striking Charlie in anger, we take a day away. In order to earn that date
back, she has to do a "mystery" chore, which is a big chore of our
choosing. This has only happened once, when she lied about doing
something, and she had to help me vacumm the car after a tailgate. Not a
small job!!
So far, this seems to be working well. We hardly have to remind her to do her chores, and she gets so excited when she gets another dollar.
It has also been nice in helping explain the concept of money to her. Now that she knows how much it takes to earn her $1, she has a better understanding of what $10 and $20 really costs. When she wants something and we tell her it costs $10, she gets that it will take a while to earn that much money, and she doesn't get upset when we say no. It doesn't work ALL of the time, but I hope that by starting the discussion now, she will grow up with an appreciation for saving money and truly understand that money does not just grow on trees or come out of mommy and daddy's wallet whenever we need it!!!
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