Teaching your kids how to help out around the home is a great way to promote a positive work ethic. If you start early enough, your child may even enjoy helping out because they get a strong sense of contributing to the household. However, it can sometimes be difficult figuring out which tasks are age-appropriate. You want it to be something that they can easily handle that also won’t require you to micromanage or clean up after them. [Tweet "Preschool chores: promote a positive work … [Read more...]
10 Ways to Let Children Earn Allowance
Not all children need spending money but an allowance is a great way to teach them early on how to manage money. They can learn valuable skills about cost and reward and these skills will help them later in life to understand the value of money. Unfortunately it can be difficult to come up with ways to allow kids to earn money. Here we have 10 ways to let children earn an allowance. No more feeling guilty for just handing them money every week. Use these creative options to keep your kids … [Read more...]
10 Chores Preschoolers Can Do
My Princess has always been a good helper. Really. She has a good work ethic just like her daddy. {Notice I didn’t say like me! *Shrug*} She actually wants to help with chores. To her at age 3 almost 4 years old, it is FUN. We believe it is important for her to learn about chores. We want her to be contributing and feel good about contributing to the family. So here are 10 chores that I think preschoolers can do each day: 1. Make bed: this is one chore we actually do together … [Read more...]
