At a "service auction" in August, I auctioned off a service of making chore boards. Rachel won that auction bid, and even though it almost took me 6 months, I finally got it done. She has twin girls, Lacy and Claire, and she decided pink for Lacy, purple for Claire. Melodie helped me finish them and even donated the cute paper we used for the background, which I thought was perfect cause it helped tie them together even with different colored letters. I should have taken pictures of them with the ribbon, they were darn cute. I might ask for another paper like this from Mel for Sophia's board - the picture doesn't show it but the paper was glittery, very pretty.
As for my kids' chore boards, they are not used regularly for the Accountable Kids system right now with the kids in school, but the boards do serve as a holding place for their "paid chores" cards, which we started after reading the book "The Parenting Breakthrough" (to teach them how to manage money)-
Still figuring it out, but right now they earn 50 cents for practicing music for 30 minutes, 25 cents for 15 minutes of Spanish, and 25 cents for 15 minutes of work. It's kinda nice cause, as you can see from our December paid chores experiment, most of the kids are slackers (that's Joe's card on the left) so we didn't have to pay them much, and with the money they do have, they've paid for Christmas and birthday presents for friend's parties, bought their own shoes, Joe paid to go to Airborne with a friend, stuff like that, things that I would pay for for them before, now they are learning a little bit of money management - and they're learning the Circle of Fifth's at the same time! (Corey's such a great music teacher - the kids are doing awesome - Joe plays the clarinet, Mel plays the flute, Ethan and Hyrum the soprano sax, it's great)
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