One of the most enlightening realizations I’ve had in a while has been this: kids will do their share of housework if they are allowed and encouraged to do it. E is now 6 years old and S will turn 4 in 3 months. Until now they have been served pretty well by us parents (cooking, serving, cleaning, picking up etc)👩🏻🍳👨🍳🤵🏻♀️🤵🏼 I started to think about this and realized that they really were not able to help themselves! For example our cereal boxes AND dishes were too high on the shelves for them to reach. Also, before I didn’t even want them meddling with dishwasher, cleaning the house or laundry because it just makes things much more complicated. BUT now it is time. For quite some time we have been talking about starting a weekly allowance for them. This has now been started. In addition we have all agreed to start a bonus system where daily tasks can add to allowance or you can take the bonus as additional screen time. They are given points from small tasks like making the bed or taking their plate to dishwasher but also for helping with cleaning or brushing the toilet. 🚽 Last week E collected 44 bonus points and S 11. Elmo chose screen time (extra 9 minutes) and S chose to have 0,20€ extra to her allowance. The idea is that once the tasks become automated we can replace the easy ones with more demanding tasks to our follow-up. • #kids #kidshelpout #letkidshelp #smalltasks #rewardingsystem #kidsandmoney #weeklyallowance #everyonehelps #motivation #viikkoraha #bonusjärjestelmä #kotityöt #lapsetjaraha #kaikkiauttavatkotona #pieniähommia #ruuhkavuodet #yhteistyö #siivouspäivä https://www.instagram.com/p/CWOtUWyt1da/?utm_medium=tumblr
