Comments on: Why We Don’t Pay Our Kids To Do Their Chores

By: Noell Hyman » Blog Archive » Why Nobody Died When We Got Rid Of TV.

Noell Hyman » Blog Archive » Why Nobody Died When We Got Rid Of TV. — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 05:16:11 +0000

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By: Angie Lucas

Angie Lucas — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:46:49 +0000

I love your very purposeful and provident approach to allowance and chores! I love a system that rewards children with the right kinds of things for the right reasons.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:13:45 +0000

Dude, I asked you and you said, “9 or 10.” And I said, Tthat’s exactly what I was thinking.” This is hilarious.

By: Blake

Blake — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:04:23 +0000

9 years old? Mom, I was in first grade when you started giving me allowance.

By: Deanna

Deanna — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:35:08 +0000

This is great, thanks so much for sharing! This was a good starting point for discussion for my husband and me and I think we’re going to use your two-week rule.

By: Francine

Francine — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:30:21 +0000

This is a great post Noell! I never got paid for chores either and like Jana I didn’t get an allowance, it wasn’t a common thing in the Caribbean back then. We did get some spending money for Christmas though. I love the two week wait idea. I should institute that for me! lol

By: admin

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:00:44 +0000

Danielle_nl — I think our oldest was probably 9 years old or something? We only paid a tiny bit. We really struggled with the whole allowance thing: whether to pay or not; how much to pay. It was becoming obvious that my son’s friends were getting paid much much more. Finally a year ago we decided we wanted to enable the kids to participate in donating to charitable causes without forcing them to. So we increased their allowance just a tiny bit and told them it was so that they would feel like they had enough to donate if they wanted. We have been shocked that the kids started voluntarily buying each other Christmas and birthday gifts. That was one of the cool results of increasing their allowance.

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 28 May 2010 09:06:10 +0000

We too share this same philosophy….you are a part of this family, and with that comes responsibilities. I hope and pray that our parenting decisions such as this along with modeling our work ethic will make them hard working, responsible, reliable adults.
Great post Noell.

By: Danielle_nl

Danielle_nl — Fri, 28 May 2010 08:20:24 +0000

I like your ideas about allowance. I’ll keep them in mind for when my kids are old enough to receive some money for them to spend.

How old were the kids when you start to pay them the allowance?

By: Mariangeles_Spain

Mariangeles_Spain — Fri, 28 May 2010 07:51:14 +0000

I totally agree with you

I’ve loved reading this post.

TFS!!