Already.  I know.

But we’ve been reading the Money Smart Family System (and you can find more at their website, moneysmartfamily.com) and will be implementing it this summer.  This includes chore charts and point systems, and I wanted to incorporate this into the summer schedule that I already had so that I was setting them up to succeed.

Guys, for real, this book is helpful.  It gives practical advice (with age-appropriate suggestions!) for starting children on chores and earning money so they learn financial responsibility.

Here are my summer documents if you are interested.  Grace gets 15¢ per point, Eli and Ada get 10¢ per point.  That doesn’t sound like much, but they have the potential of 23 points per week.  If they earn all of their points in a day, and have good behavior (earning 2 bonus points), they can double their pay for a day, essentially getting 82 points for the week.  It’s explained in the book 🙂  PLUS they weren’t getting any money before.  So.

Grace’s Chores
Eli’s Chores
Ada’s Chores
summer schedule
Point System – summer (there will be a new one during the school year that includes a “homework point”)

Here is how it breaks down in a day.  Monday is laundry day, so they are each responsible for stripping their sheets and bringing them to the basement, along with their laundry (except for Grace, she does her own laundry another day).  They also make their beds once the sheets are clean, or help me make their beds.  I do the rest of the laundry.  Every day Ada is responsible for emptying the bottom shelf of the dishwasher, Eli the top shelf, and Grace loads it up.

Tuesday is kitchen day.  I make sure the kitchen is picked up (it’s my stuff anyway).  Eli sweeps, Grace mops, Ada wipes the counters and light switches with a Chlorox wipe.

Basically I’m bringing them into my daily cleaning schedule.

This is plan #372 to teach our children about finances and doing chores.  You try one, tweak it, and if it fails you DO ANOTHER ONE.  You can’t quit on this stuff, guys.  We quit for a long time, then were annoyed that the kids never had money to buy the unnecessaries of life.  So we are trying again.  And tweaking.  And staying committed!!

LET’S GO!!

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