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<blockquote data-quote="PersonalEnigma" data-source="post: 110810" data-attributes="member: 4457"><p>Right now difficult child doesn't have an allowance, but I hope to restart something. He has some chores that he is required to do each day no matter what (feeding the dog for example). We had a pet lizard and I paid him $5 a week for his "job" of caring for the lizard. Sadly the lizard died (no fault of difficult child) so that fell by the wayside. I am thinking of making up a paid chores list for him so he canchoose what chores to do and earn money accordingly. I want him to equate getting money to having a job of some sort and plan to help him get a "real" job as soon as he is old enough.</p><p></p><p>For saving, I am thinking of setting up a chart like those fund-raising thermometers where difficult child can choose an item to save for, then keep track of how close to that goal he is getting. I don't know how well it will work though...</p><p></p><p>Another thing I hope difficult child will learn from having to work hard to get something he wants is to value and take care of that thing. He is SO hard on his things and never keeps track of them. Right now he has been banned from video games until he finds two cases which he has managed to loose (leaving the disks lying around where they can get wrecked). We cleaned up the living room today, searching under the couches for the cases. No luck sadly - I would have loved to be able to reward him with some game time. At least we foundd some of his other things that he'd been missing for quite some time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PersonalEnigma, post: 110810, member: 4457"] Right now difficult child doesn't have an allowance, but I hope to restart something. He has some chores that he is required to do each day no matter what (feeding the dog for example). We had a pet lizard and I paid him $5 a week for his "job" of caring for the lizard. Sadly the lizard died (no fault of difficult child) so that fell by the wayside. I am thinking of making up a paid chores list for him so he canchoose what chores to do and earn money accordingly. I want him to equate getting money to having a job of some sort and plan to help him get a "real" job as soon as he is old enough. For saving, I am thinking of setting up a chart like those fund-raising thermometers where difficult child can choose an item to save for, then keep track of how close to that goal he is getting. I don't know how well it will work though... Another thing I hope difficult child will learn from having to work hard to get something he wants is to value and take care of that thing. He is SO hard on his things and never keeps track of them. Right now he has been banned from video games until he finds two cases which he has managed to loose (leaving the disks lying around where they can get wrecked). We cleaned up the living room today, searching under the couches for the cases. No luck sadly - I would have loved to be able to reward him with some game time. At least we foundd some of his other things that he'd been missing for quite some time. [/QUOTE]
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