Yesterday, I asked Youngest Son to organize the container cabinet. After matching up the lids to their bowls, he asked me if I could pay him for doing the job. I’m not sure if my logic was flawed on this one or not, but I told him no, because although we’ve recently begun to pay our children for chore completion, he’d gotten assigned the job because he was underfoot, sighing loudly while I was making lunch. If you’re bored, I tell them, and you can’t find anything to do, I’ll find something for you.
I’m a fan of many Old School Parenting techniques, and this is one of them, but sometimes I wonder well the Old School tactics merge with those tips I take from modern day parenting experts.
Paying our kids to do chores began as a result of Oldest Son’s ADHD diagnosis; because his brain works differently, I’ve had to be open to doing things differently. With ADHD, research shows that a concrete reward can be the defining difference between desired behavior and chaos. And once Oldest Son started earning a wage from us, the other kids began asking. Now I’m in a real pickle. What should my kids do because it’s a paid chore, and what should they do simply because I told them to?
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