Comments on: Children and Chores http://www.cathykeir.co.uk/blog/children-and-chores/ Welcome to the home of Beta Mum - who lacks the lifestyle and perfectionist tendencies of Alpha Mummy, but rubs along pretty well most of the time Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:45:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: KTJ http://www.cathykeir.co.uk/blog/children-and-chores/#comment-4526 KTJ Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:07:47 +0000 http://www.cathykeir.co.uk/blog/children-and-chores/#comment-4526 This is a difficult one but I agree there's too few hours in the day for a working mum to be trying to persuade children to help out round the home. I pay my son money for keeping his room tidy and, since he's naturally messy, he never gets paid. So he loses out on things he wants as I refuse to buy him things other than clothes and food unless it's Easter, Birthday or Christmas. I'm trying to encourage him to get his own breakfast by saying if he doesn't he'll starve till lunch time. That tends to work... ;0) This is a difficult one but I agree there’s too few hours in the day for a working mum to be trying to persuade children to help out round the home.

I pay my son money for keeping his room tidy and, since he’s naturally messy, he never gets paid. So he loses out on things he wants as I refuse to buy him things other than clothes and food unless it’s Easter, Birthday or Christmas.

I’m trying to encourage him to get his own breakfast by saying if he doesn’t he’ll starve till lunch time. That tends to work… ;0)

]]> By: Kerry http://www.cathykeir.co.uk/blog/children-and-chores/#comment-3938 Kerry Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:39:12 +0000 http://www.cathykeir.co.uk/blog/children-and-chores/#comment-3938 Hi there I do apologise for clogging up your comment box with this but would it be possible for you to drop me an email at your convenience? I'm working on something at the moment that I think may be of interest to you both as a parent and a blogger. Cheers! Kerry Hi there

I do apologise for clogging up your comment box with this but would it be possible for you to drop me an email at your convenience?

I’m working on something at the moment that I think may be of interest to you both as a parent and a blogger.

Cheers!

Kerry

]]> By: Beta Mum http://www.cathykeir.co.uk/blog/children-and-chores/#comment-3936 Beta Mum Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:39:12 +0000 http://www.cathykeir.co.uk/blog/children-and-chores/#comment-3936 I am cursed with a completer-finisher gene. I am cursed with a completer-finisher gene.

]]> By: Omega Mum http://www.cathykeir.co.uk/blog/children-and-chores/#comment-3935 Omega Mum Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:04:57 +0000 http://www.cathykeir.co.uk/blog/children-and-chores/#comment-3935 The scary thing about pocket money is how little I'd get if I applied the bad behaviour/docking rule to myself.....Hope your well. Do admire your blogging stamina. How do you keep going so consistently? The scary thing about pocket money is how little I’d get if I applied the bad behaviour/docking rule to myself…..Hope your well. Do admire your blogging stamina. How do you keep going so consistently?

]]> By: Beta Mum http://www.cathykeir.co.uk/blog/children-and-chores/#comment-3934 Beta Mum Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:24:21 +0000 http://www.cathykeir.co.uk/blog/children-and-chores/#comment-3934 We keep forgetting to give them their pocket money - but Hannah has been making breakfast most mornings (she has weekends off) and Ben sweeps under the table a lot. So it's we who are reneging on the deal! We keep forgetting to give them their pocket money – but Hannah has been making breakfast most mornings (she has weekends off) and Ben sweeps under the table a lot.
So it’s we who are reneging on the deal!

]]> By: dulwichmum http://www.cathykeir.co.uk/blog/children-and-chores/#comment-3933 dulwichmum Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:15:09 +0000 http://www.cathykeir.co.uk/blog/children-and-chores/#comment-3933 This is a difficult one, and I am in the same place as you right now. We are giving pocket money for chores. It seems to work in fits and starts. How did you get on? This is a difficult one, and I am in the same place as you right now. We are giving pocket money for chores. It seems to work in fits and starts. How did you get on?

]]> By: guineapigmum http://www.cathykeir.co.uk/blog/children-and-chores/#comment-3876 guineapigmum Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:31:39 +0000 http://www.cathykeir.co.uk/blog/children-and-chores/#comment-3876 Good luck on this one! I think we're in the same position as Iota. They can earn money by doing extra chores, particularly ones I don't want to do (the rate definitely increases for those!) but it doesn't seem to happen very often. Good luck on this one! I think we’re in the same position as Iota. They can earn money by doing extra chores, particularly ones I don’t want to do (the rate definitely increases for those!) but it doesn’t seem to happen very often.

]]> By: Iota http://www.cathykeir.co.uk/blog/children-and-chores/#comment-3874 Iota Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:56:11 +0000 http://www.cathykeir.co.uk/blog/children-and-chores/#comment-3874 It's such a tricky one, this. We decided not to give financial rewards for chores, on the basis that these are part of family life, and should be part of the child's life, without reward. Of course this inevitably has meant that they don't do chores. It’s such a tricky one, this. We decided not to give financial rewards for chores, on the basis that these are part of family life, and should be part of the child’s life, without reward. Of course this inevitably has meant that they don’t do chores.

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