Chores and Allowances
Oh boy are we having a hard time finding a way to organize which child does what when and how much they can earn. Right now we don’t have anything “set in stone”. Each child basically know their individual chores and what is expected of them. However, these are very, very few. Other than those I’m always asking each child to “do me a favor” and offering a money reward. I am so tired of all that, lol!
I want something that’s “set in stone” - something like a chore chart. We’re not sure if we want to give each individual chore a value. If it’s done, they get paid for it, if it isn’t they don’t. OR Should we just make a list of chores. If they’re all done, they get paid, if they’re not - they don’t. I’m not sure if the latter is quite fair to the children however, it does give them more of an incentive of getting them done.
Mom is tired of constantly telling each child what to do, reminding them over and over again to get it done and all that good stuff! Mom wants something a bit more organized! (Yes, I’m yelling and venting, rofl!)
 My daughter is 11 and my son is 7.Â
How do you handle it? I’m assuming most combine allowances and chores? Do you do this? What do you pay? What chores are your children responsible for and how old are they?
Yeah, I have a ton of questions … I would just love to hear how other handle the “Chores & Allowances” issue.
 So, spill the beans … what do you do?
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Anita,
My daughter’s 24 now but, I did was create a chore that listed each chore and a dollar value. Allowance was the total value of the completed chores. 50% of allowance had to go into the bank, 25% used to purchase must have items, ie. bath products. The 25% she was able to blow any way she liked. Today at 24 she only spends half her paycheck and the other half goes in the bank.
Beryl
Posted by: BPowell | May 13th, 2008 03:29
Thanks for sharing Beryl!
First of all it’s great to hear that at the age of 24, those little life lessons you taught her are still being used
We too make it mandatory that they save at least 50% of what they earn. Now occassionally, we do make an exception depending on what it is.
We’re including them in the discussion of what should be done too and they’re surprising me! I expected to ask for a lot more than we were willing to offer but they kept it very reasonable. While were were discussing what the “potential” would be by figuring it out per month, per year etc. My daughter had already figured it out that she must save half of it. My son hasn’t quite figured it out as of yet, lol!
Posted by: Anita | May 13th, 2008 08:15