by Marita on February 23, 2012
I’m thankful for friends both online and in real life who have provided inspiration to help with chores.
My girls are taking on more responsibility around the home, Annie is helping with the washing, Heidi is setting the table and both girls need to clean their rooms once a week.
It was challenging motivating the girls to do their jobs so we’ve set up some “I’m working for…” goals
A mum at school told me her trick of paying her kids 1-2cents per chore which I thought was a great idea.
Annie gets 1 cent per item of clothing for:
- hanging them in the line
- taking dry clothes off the line
- folding
- putting away
Now at roughly 25 items per load of washing, Annie could earn around $1 per load of washing, with distinct possibility of earning up to $10/week – if she did it all by herself everyday, which she doesn’t. However it does earn Annie around $4 a week.
But how to keep track of her earnings accurately? I remembered Shae’s post about savings reward charts for pocket money
That works well for my visual girls, I’ve printed “I’m working for” sheet and then created chart the girls could tick each time they complete a job.
Click here to download MS Word version of our Chore Reward Chart
Heidi is now using her chart to earn 1 cent for each item of homework she completes also. It has prove to be a great motivator. The girls simply tick a box in the grid for each item they have done – there are 200 squares in the grid, so each page is worth $2.
I’m thankful for friends both online & off for their inspiration.
Now go on over to Kate’s to see who else is joining in Thankful Thursday.
by Marita on February 22, 2012
When I was in primary school I won the above pictured cookbook for making the friendly ghost cake from The Women’s Weekly Birthday Cake cookbook.
I had a great time cooking recipes from my “Cooking for Fun” book, there were a few recipes which became a staple of our family meals. Once such recipe was “Salmon and Cheese Pie”, really any recipe that calls for 1 ½ cups of grated cheese is hard to pass up.
It never occurred to me that others may not like my Salmon and Cheese Pie until the second year of my marriage, Ralph and I were sharing a house with his sister and her tweenage children. My niece and nephew were less than impressed when I told them we were having Salmon and Cheese Pie for dinner.
So the next time I planned to make dinner and they asked what I was making I answered “GeraldBobRobert” and there was no argument.
Fast forward 9 years and I thought I would start teaching Annie to make dinner, starting with my favourite Salmon and Cheese Pie. All the ingredients were laid out on the kitchen bench, I showed Annie the recipe in the book and she responded by throwing the book across the room. Much screaming about tuna sushi (?? why) and tears from Annie later I decided to make dinner myself without her help.
That night Ralph and I ate Salmon and Cheese Pie whilst Annie and Heidi had cold chicken and left over MacNCheese.
The next day for lunch I made toasted sandwiches with left over Salmon and Cheese Pie for filling. Annie loved her toasted sandwich and kept asking what the filling was, to which I replied “GeraldBobRobert”.
When something works, you don’t ask why, you just do.
