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the bandwagon i need to revisit that book and commit to do better i ve decided that my new year s resolution is going to be implementing a money system into our family we ve started and i know there are going to be wrinkles that we ll have to iron out as time goes on but i figure it s better to start and then tweak things where we need to we aren t doing things exactly the same way as the eyre s suggest we re adapting it to work a little better for our family but i like the general ideas and principles they talk about here are some of the ideas from the part of their book on establishing a family economy these are random notes that i ve typed into my iphone while listening so i m hoping they ll make sense to me if i refer to them later make a list of things that need to be done in order to run you household put value in a dollar amount on those things that need to be done pay attention to how much you are spending on things your child wants each month have that be the amount you pay them then expect them to pay for things they want whether it be to go out with friends or to buy clothing toys games books etc they probably won t care about buying underwear and socks so you should still plan on buying the things like this that they need as well as food shelter transportation explain to the child that there is certain money that comes into the household and that things need to be done to keep a household running you feel they are old enough to be part of the family economy they suggest 8 we are trying to do it on a simpler level with aaron 6 1 2 and isaac 4 it s not going as well as it is with the girls so i can see their point but we are still going to try to include them have the requirement for them to do what is required to get ready for school homework music practice scriptures and prayer homework cleaning up a zone in the house bedtime prep to bed on time just a few examples when i first read through this i thought these are things they should be doing anyway why would i pay them i reconciled with this thought these are things that are expected of them but we are trying to teach them how an economy works and to help them feel ownership over their lives we also plan to be very strict right now we have about 20 boxes for the week they have to check off our plan is to give them 100 of our agreed upon amount if they get 100 in doing all that is required if they miss one mark they will get 50 and if they miss more than 1 they get nothing we are allowing them to make up two of the piano days since their teacher only requires them to practice 5 days a week they get a small amount of extra money each day they do their practicing in the a m we ve always expected them to practice in the early a m because it likely doesn t happen if we wait we always wake them to practice early in the a m because that is when we expect them to practice but if they lally gag and don t get to the bench in time they will forfeit the opportunity to get that extra amount so far they have done awesome and that one who takes her sweet old time getting to the bench is the first one there in the morning i would even go as far as saying she is bright eyed and bushy tailed makes me want to kiss her face and do a happy dance which i think i have right now we are doing alot of reminding they suggest not doing so much of the reminding but i hope to remind nag them for the first few weeks in hopes that they can taste the fruits of success and be motivated to keep going i think it s going to be really hard to avoid bailing them out it gets annoying listening to my kids complain when they don t get their way but i really want them to learn now while the stakes are small i really want this system to work and i know that if i let natural consequences fall into place we will have more success tomorrow is our first pay day i have my bank a sentrysafe money box i have plenty of small bills and coins because one other thing i didn t mention was that we plan to teach them the 10 20 70 rule 10 tithing 20 savings and 70 spend freely or save freely really whatever they want to do but we will have the expectation that they pay for the things they desire the eyre s recommend doing checkbooks and having them write a check to the bank when they want to get money out but we are going to give them the cash we feel like exchanging the tangible will work better for them right now i m still trying to figure out how we will teach interest and compound interest i m still formulating how i want to do that i m also toying with the idea of letting them make up two boxes by doing those jobs even though it s past the day and then memorizing an article of faith for each box they miss one of the great things is that because we have family prayer and scripture study as part of the chart they are now fully invested and have taken ownership in making sure that it happens before we had certain children who would always find an excuse to leave the table or remember something they really needed to do i know it sounds bad when you say it but i figure if we can just make that very important thing happen regardless of how the spirit will touch them and it will benefit them for good in a perfect world we would all be motivated intrinsically but something extrinsic rewards are just what our mortal world needs hopefully we ll move towards the intrinsic other things i ve really loved from their book that have to do with families write our family traditions in a special book come up with some birthday traditions specific to each child have some smaller everyday traditions dinner time games happy sad etc weekly family meetings mission statement a few words that describe a vision for our family have each child come up with a sentence or two that describes what we are about as a family simplify and talk about these things to come up with the statement summed up of the contributions have family laws and consequences peace repentance bench respect let s start over ask if we don t know where you are you can t go next time order clean your room before you go anywhere obedience please is a magic word we will use and that means you have to do what we are asking i m sure i will be able to add to this list jumbled old list but this is my work in progress now off to make sure tomorrow s payday will be a success posted by joe and amy at 7 38 pm no comments labels familee family economy parenting thursday january 10 2013 happy new year on new year s eve we spent the night at home and hosted some of the kid s f r iends i love being home i actually went to bed at 10 4 3 on the dot and let j oe take care of h osting until 12 30 a m i knew that at midnight the fireworks outside our bedroom window would wake me they did i sat up long enough to look at them and then went straight back to bed i m so much more of a morning person hell o wi nter we see so many deer in our neighborhood the other day we counted a total of 8 in our backyard i love it it makes me feel like i live in the mountains but i know that come summertime everyone will be complaining about the deer eating from their gardens posted by joe and amy at 2 22 pm no comments wednesday january 9 2013 merry christmas brynn and abby were excited to check the norad tracker when they woke up to make sure santa had indeed made his stop this is a terrible quality photo we real ly need to invest in a n slr instead of always using our iphones but i wanted to capture it because of what happened isaac gave aaron a penguin dreamlight and aaron was really excited about it santa al s o gave aaron a bear dreamli ght w ithout any prompting from us aaron gave the bear to isaac i saac was so happy but for me it was best christmas present eve r to see aaron do something so kind for h is brother brynn and abby also had a l o t of fun thinking about that thing that would please the ot her they both succeeded we have a deal with santa he fills the stocking and we give our kids the res t of their presents santa fills them with all sorts of junk that i would never buy darn that santa as well as a few other little things brynn picked up some beautiful jewelry for m e she is so sweet isaac was about as thrilled to get this little darth maul action figure as anything else that day aaron s b ig gift were a coup le o f remote control lego trains we spent the next two days putting them together it was a great bo nding time the cutest part about giving him th is gift was t hat he couldn t believe t hat joseph and i used our money to buy it for him he kept asking us if we bou ght it with our money and when we told him yes he kept saying o ver and over i can t bel ieve you used your own m o ney to buy this for me he s wanted it for a couple of years but i think we must have told him he was too young and it was too expensive he was so pleased we loved witnessing his happiness abby m ade me an awesome cal endar that i keep in my laundry room i m not sure who this came from but it ma kes me laugh ev erytime i see it o u r big family gift this year was something that we have talked about and m ulled over for quite a few years joe hasn t wanted to have video games and we got away with it for a very long time it really helped that we lived in cal ifornia and had really mild or rather really no winter since moving to utah it gets hard for the kids to get physical activity when it s so cold outside you can only last so long out there after lots of studying we deci ded to do the x box kinect so that they had to use their bodies to manipulate the games it has been the best gift when the kids play they are running dancing sweating and of ten they have sore muscles t he next day we ve e ven had quite a bit of fun with it ourlse lves grandma and grandpa wanted to make sure they could see the kids open their presents so we skyped christmas morning we en ded up staying home all day to enjoy ch ristmas at our house as a family they treated the kids with lots of fun games for the kine ct after ope ning presents we enjoyed our quiche and engl ish scones with devonshire cream we were r ich fooded out after that and were so excited to get back to our healt hier meals it was a beautiful white christmas day i s pent the first two days in my pajamas putting t ogether t he train after a couple of days i e merged from my lego ca coon showered and started eating normal food posted by joe and amy at 4 13 pm no comments labels christmas 2012 familee christmas eve christmas eve day was a day of preparation for us joseph worked most of the day to try to get more patients admitted and at home we shoveled snow baked cooked cleaned shoveled more snow made last minute runs to the store played and baked and cooked some more we had a beautiful white out that made for a beautiful christmas day w hen joseph returned home from work he set up his laptop with a projector so we could track santa making his deli veries all over the wor ld the k ids lo ved keeping tabs on that jolly m an and happily went to bed wh en the time came because they could see santa was on his way to work his magic joseph also set up the movie arthur christ mas w hile we made final prepartation s for dinner and breakfast the next morning t his year we voted on pasta and chicken parmigiana for dinner with all the fixin s grandma and grandpa joined up for our eve ni ng i m not sure why but in alot of picture s with grandpa he makes th ese funny faces m aybe he s just teasing grandma who is taking the picture the kids could hardly contain their excitement and while we did the dishes they quickly turned everything into a dance party because we had read luke 2 with my family the night before we decided to talk about samuel s foretelling of the christ child from the book of mormon the boys were happy to act as sam uel and nephi a s we told the story of a nephite christmas joseph did a great job keeping everyone interested with his enthusias tic teaching skills i hate my gray carpet sometimes i se cretly wi sh something would happen to it so i cou ld replace it but it s only about 4 years o ld and great quality so i can t justify replaci ng it just yet it has a tint of sage in the sunlight but is a dull gray with the lighting downstai rs i m thinking they must have gotten a great deal on it haha joseph gave everyone the chance to shar e their feelings about the savior after he finished we then opened up their new pajamas and new books and the kids were excited for bed santa s getting closer better head to bed abby made s ure that santa and his reindeer were treated i think she wanted a few extra points with the claus i love how she told santa to read the directions to make the cocoa and the way she asked if she was on the nice list merry christmas to all and to all a good night posted by joe and amy at 2 48 pm no comments labels christmas familee vest family christmas grandma and grandpa planned a christmas celebration on the sunday before christmas we met and ate dinner and dessert decorated sugar cookies played pictionary acted out the nativity story had a talent program and then called it a night it was a fun crazy night getting a picture with all of the kids was nearly impossible they have so much fun when they get with their cousins i had to include serveral outtakes we also had a christmas celebration with joseph s family the night before but unfortunately i don t think we have any photos of it posted by joe and amy at 12 02 pm no comments labels christmas vest family older posts home subscribe to posts atom brynn alyse abby jo aaron joseph isaac joseph the divine institution of marriage about us joe and amy view my complete profile blog archive 2013 54 january 54 the entitlement trap happy new year merry christmas christmas eve vest family christmas happy birthday abby the lights at temple square the rewards alpine community theater gabe and elise get married happy halloween 2012 fall happy 4th birthday isaac montage deer valley happy birthday brynn 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