Mommy's Plan of attack!

So here's the plan. Due to the fact that my children are not so good at doing chores. I came up with a chore chart. And needless to say... It's been working for a week and a half so far. Given there are some days that they don't do their chores and they don't earn their goal for the day. But they know the consequences and they are learning. To me that is all that matters.

This how it works. The boys have a list of chores (I started easy) and for every chore they do they earn 5 min. on the computer. (That at our house is BIG! We love the computer!) Than for every day they get at least 5 X's ( = 5chores), they get to move their character one space. When they reach the 6 they get the prize they've been working for. Right now we are working to go see a movie at the movie theater. It's been a week and a half and Mattix is to 3 and Mason is to 4. Mason is really responding to the earning minutes thing so far. But has for some reason made himself comfortable with 20 min. a day. (4 chores) He picks the easiest ones and calls it good. I need to think of a way to make it worth his wild. Maybe if Mattix earns it first and gets a date without him, he'll see that he needs to work harder. And not try to defeat the system. Mattix is really good at doing chores. He just ends up going back a number every other day for naughty behavior. I worked hard on this idea. I really hope I can make it work and stick to it.

Nothing is worse than grownups that don't know how to work and apprieciate the value of working hard and earning things.