Recently, We have re-implemented "token economy," with our children who are 8 and older.
We have been calling it "cookie economy" because they earn cookies/popcorn/granola in the evening if they did all their responsibilities. We also went back to paying them allowances for some of their needs & wants.
They needed to start buying some of their "things" so they would take better care of them.
In general conference, Elder Perry's talk re-affirmed our desires in this direction by saying:
"We can organize our families based on…'family
economics,' where children have household responsibilities and can earn
allowances so that they can learn to budget, save, and pay tithing on the money
they earn."
Here are some of the principles we've learned:
3 R's for FAMILY ECONOMICS:
1. RESPONSIBILITES
a. Individual Work
b. Family Work (Specialist)
c. Education (Homework)
d. Talent Practice (8+children)
2. REWARDS
a. Work earns Food
b. Honoring Parents earns Lengthened Days
c. Allowance Money (children 8+)
3. RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
a. Time (Freedom Funnel)
b. Money (Budget- clothing,learning, fun; Tithing; Savings)
c. Talents (Mental and/or Physical)
c. Talents (Mental and/or Physical)
1 comment:
I was just reading in 2 nephi 5 when he talks about his people working and laboring with their hands.. ask myself how I could teach my kids that more and then read this... So great
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