A few weeks ago, while the neighborhood kids were playing outside, the moms were visiting. The subject of allowance was brought up. I've been wanting to start an allowance for Josh. I want to start at an early age to teach him the importance of work and helping out in our home. Thinking about it I realized that money is not an important thing for Josh - it's TV, video games and computer time.
At the same time, I was thinking Josh watches too much TV, video games and computer time.
I decided that instead of having an allowance of money, Josh would get to earn his "TV" time. I made a list of easy tasks Josh can do each day. We also created these cute little tokens out of milk jug lids (we had a surplus of them thanks to our Halloween ghosts - hopefully another post). Each token represents 15 minutes of "TV" time. Josh is allowed to earn up to six tokens a day. He also can loose tokens with bad behavior.
After a week of tokens, I'm wishing I had started this before now. It made our week heavenly. Not only was Josh a great helper around the house, but we also had less whining and less "TV" time! Plus, it's a lot cheaper than paying money :)
1 comment:
This is such a good idea! Cooper watches way too much tv as well, but I know he is still too young to grasp such a concept. Can't wait until he can though. Glad it is working out for you! :)
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