Help Kids Have The Heart Of A Servant
My 5 year old kind of developed his own chore system. Like all kids, he's always finding something he wants. We do 90% of our shopping at thrift stores but there's usually something new he wants. It all started with a Paw Patrol app for my iPad. It cost $4 and I told him he could do chores to earn it. I took one of those flat square lego pads ( like this ) and used the square bricks to count as one chore. Each chore has the value of 25 cents. So every time he did a chore, which he called a mission (no idea where that came from), he gets to put a square brick on his sheet. Now every time he wants something, he asks me how many missions that would be. The last thing he got was the Bunch O Balloons which was 30 missions. (They were only $7.88 at Walmart.) Its extremely important in our home that when a chore is done, it is done happily and not with a complaint or a sour attitude. He doesn't get his mission if he has a bad attitude when he does his chore. Every once in a wh...