Jenn Doing My Best

We do something a little different from the traditional chores allowance. Instead, we give the kids a reading allowance. 📚🤑

Think 90s Book It!, but instead of a free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut 🍕📚 (which I miss BTW! 🥹 #90sKid), they earn a little money when they fill up their reading logs.

And my kids LOVE doing this! 😁

I always take them to the stores where it’s easy to find fun things for under $10.

Places like Walmart, Five Below, Target, and Dollar Tree where a kid gets excited over novelty products, inexpensive art supplies, plushies, puzzles, slime, posters and unique gadgets. 🤩

You know the kind of stuff when you’re out grocery shopping and your kid picks up some random fuzzy pen that costs six bucks and asks if you can get it.

But you’re like, “Absolutely not! That fuzzy pen is $6! 😲 We’re here to just get some milk and bread, dude.” 😂😏

But with their own money they can get any fuzzy pen or quirky doodad they want! 😆😉

Yeah, those are the kind of stores I take the kids to on their allowance payday. 🤩😂

Plus, it’s a great way to teach the kids living math! 💯

They learn price comparison, estimating, paying tax, counting money to pay for purchases at stores, how to save their money…and bonus…social skills—how to interact with the cashiers and staff!

💜 XO

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