Ok, so good news, (we all need good news these days) John cleaned the highchair and I didn't even ask him to do it. He just saw that it looked like a toxic waste dump and didn't want his little boy to come down with any strange diseases. So yeah, I didn't even have to do it. Now I can post a picture of Josh in his clean highchair! I even promised John that I would start wiping it down. Doesn't Joshua look happy about his clean highchair.
Number two on the list. Here is a picture of my laundry. Monday is laundry day at my house, most weeks. I usually do between 6-7 loads of laundry, more if I have sheets to do. My laundry room in my house in Arizona is not very big so the piles end up all the way down the hall. Someday I will look back at all this laundry and miss it. Ok, so I won't miss the laundry, but I will probably miss the little kids that made all of the laundry. When John and I were first married I would do two loads of laundry a week; one light and one dark. You never know how easy you have it until it is gone.
Finally two weeks ago we started an allowance. We have been talking about it for about a year and I finally started it. I set it up from an idea I found on the website www.valueparenting.com.
Without going into too much explanation Hannah and Caroline get a percentage of their allowance according to how much of their chores/ responsibilities they take care of on their own, I am really trying hard not to remind. We are trying to teach responsibility. They mark off the items on their job chart and then on Saturday we go over everything and the percentage of the things they did is the percentage of their allowance they get, then they need to take 10% out for tithing, and 20% of long term savings and the rest is theirs.
As we build on this they will have certain items they will be responsilbe for buying and managing their own money. The website suggests giving them enough money that they are paying for most of the things that you would normally pay for, clothes, movies, lessons, lunch money ect. The older they get the larger the allowance and the more responsibility they get. Right now we are still working on doing our jobs and hoping the 'love of money' will kick in soon to incentivize them a little bit more. Last week Hannah came out with a $1.75 (after tithing and savings) out of a possible of $5. You can see we have a lot of work to do. Now I have to go and finish folding my last three loads of laundry. Yuck!
4 comments:
That is funny. Our laundry posts on the same day. Love your allowance idea. Ours has fizzled and has never been revisited. :(
I love your allowance idea. I've been really thinking I needed to start something like this soon.
That sounds great. We attempted to do the allowance thing but I was waaaaayyyyy cheap and we were talking quarters instead of dollars!!! It lasted all of a week and the goal was for the kids to earn enough money for their weekly happy meal at Micky D's on saturday. This post was a good reminder to me to get back into that!!!
Love the laundry pic, glad i'm not the only one with the hall pile up. my boys love to climb the moutains and destory the folded Mts. in fact i should be folding right now!!
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