First "Allowance"

Grace has been taking more of an interest in shopping and paying for items at the store. She is good at counting and beginning to understand cause and effect concepts. So, being the financial planner I am, I decided it was time for an allowance. There are lots of ideas and thoughts on this that I have read about for years so Jack and I came up with a program that works for Grace.

Grace has to do "chores" to earn stickers. Five stickers (we will eventually increase that) earns a prize from the "prize bag" (little toys, mostly from the dollar store). Grace caught on very fast. Her favorite "chore" so far is emptying all the trash cans in the house. She is actually pretty good- she goes and gets the can, empties it in the kitchen and puts it back- all by herself. She is very proud to earn her sticker and constantly counts how many she has.

Her first prize was a pair of dress up shoes which she says she got for Pumpkin, her bear. He is "wearing" them right now.