At least now that she has some new motivation to do them she does!
I heard about a total gem of a website called Handipoints and it looked like it might be a great way to get my daughter doing chores.
Understand please that she’s awfully spoiled and getting her to do chores is like pulling teeth. I needed a new way to motivate her. She likes online games, and LOVES dressing up online characters, so I thought it sounded like a winner.
It’s a Free online application that lets me set up chores, what days of the week they can/should be done, and allocate reward points for each chore. Each chore gets two different kinds of points. One type of points goes toward rewards I give her, and the other type are used to play games in Handiland, ‘buy’ clothes for her online cat character, etc..
I also got to set up various rewards she could ‘buy’ when she had saved up Mom-reward points. You could pick from things you would actually go buy, or you could put in activities, or just create custom rewards that you want to give them. You decide how many points they need to save up to get those rewards.
I created a couple of dozen rewards, and my daughter immediately focused on the ‘Go Bowling’ reward that would cost her 120 points. After a couple of days of me having to push her to get going on it, she started to see the points rack up fast, and started doing them herself! It’s great. So, I signed us up on the 8th of this month, and yesterday (11 days later) she bought herself a trip to go bowling (which we did and had fun with!). Of course, if she had done all the chores every day, she probably would’ve had many many more points, but some is better than none!
For now, Handpoints is a success for us. We’ll see if the motivation lasts.
