chores

Judah now has daily chores. His chores are: help empty the dishwasher (he puts his dishes away), set the table, put pj's in dirty clothes and throw his diaper away, clean up his bedroom, and he gets extra stickers for doing helpful things that aren't his regular chores. We haven't been super consistent in it yet but are taking it slow and easing into it, at this point I am working on getting him familiar with the things that are his jobs. I have been happy with how it is working so far and he seems to enjoy helping.

I want to start him on a weekly allowance also. I am hoping to tie this into his chores. Maybe a penny per completed chore or something like that. I don't want him to get a lot of money, but I would like to start teaching him about money. It's important to me that our kids have a grasp of money and the concept of working for money. I want them to understand how to save money and donate money and have spending money for fun stuff. I know he probably seems too young to a lot of you to be having chores and getting an allowance, but these are things that are important to us. We want our kids to be a helpful part of our household and I don't want spoiled kids and I think part of that is having kids that understand money and know that mom and dad don't have endless supplies of money but that we have to budget and save for things too. How better to do that than to start at age 2?