Rule Change!!

Our house has new rules for Child Number 1 and Child Number 2, hopefully Child Number 3 follows by example- I'll let you know how that works out.

After several disasters involving no clean pants and mouldy lunchboxes, we decided that things were due for a change.

We came up with a cunning plan- all set out on the always handy whiteboard. We had daily chores, pocket money amounts, time frames, our expectations, their expectations, projected earnings etc.....

When we had the 'big talk' the children a) talked themselves into 50% less pocket money (they thought we were offering too much) and b) they provided us with an additional list of chores. WHAT?

Well, I think everyone came out a winner. From now on I will no longer need the use of a GPS just to locate dirty laundry, but also us parents get a great, big, satisfying thumbs up, we must be doing something right! On the other side, the children get regular pocket money, happier parents and no more mouldy pants.