If you pay your Children to do jobs...

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How much do you pay for:

Emptying the full dishwasher?
Emptying half the dishwasher?
Scrubbing inside the toilet for 60 seconds?
Scrubbing inside toilet and wiping down the outside?
Hanging out a full load of washing?
Bringing a full load of washing in the house off the line?
Peeling and Cutting up the vegetables for tea (to feed 6 people, so quite a few veg)?

DC are 10,8 & 6. We are outside London, if that makes a difference. TIA.

No idea, but can I borrow your children???? Ax

no no no, that's not fair!
They only (sometimes) do jobs because they're required to do them to get computer and TV time.
But they claim that they would do more jobs if I offered to pay more; I'm offering about 20p/job, they say that's pitiful.
Cheers.

No idea really but gut instinct says

50p
25p
25p
60p
50p
50p
£1 (but I hate chopping!)

Just pay them a set amount a week for x amount of jobs.

I couldn't be arsed with payment for individual jobs like that for 3 kids.

Write down a tick sheet and pin it on the kitchen wall, they all tick off the jobs they have done, you check it, and pay them at the end of every week. If they haven't done a job or done it craply you dock their wages.

Sounds a bit headachey to keep track of, especially when doing half a job is included!

Can't you do a rota and whoever fulfils their obligations under the rota gets £x a week?

What do the children think their efforts are worth? Good opportunity to flex their developing skills of negotiation!

My ds (12) wants a points system where he gets points for jobs which get converted inti money. He also wants ti prove he does more than dd1 who is 9. I reckon we could count the points for me and dh as well and see how much we do. He does the odd load of washing and thinks it's a lot. I want the kids to do stuff as part of us working together and if he was relying on chores for his allowance he'd get a lot less than he gets now.

But I still need to know how much to pay for how many jobs, GetOrfMoiLand. I know from experience they won't do the jobs for 20p/each.

I reckon they'd lie about the toilet jobs, too, saying they'd done it when they haven't.

I did negotiate rates with DS 2 years ago, but he's never been motivated by what we came up with, and perhaps prices have risen(?)

I would give pocket money and tell them it is on the proviso that they do these jobs. You dont get anything for nought round here.

Lol at 'outside London' Should london kids get London waiting for chores and pocket money?? Dont tell mine whatever you do!

Lol at london weighting for kids chores in London!

Gawd knows what to pay for each of those jobs. DD gets £80 a month - for that she does dishes every day, cleans bathroom 3 times a week, cleans 2 cars at the weekend, cooks once a week, polishes and dusts the sitting room when needed, and hoovers the house when asked.

She doesn't clean the loo. I don't think there is a child alive who would clean the loo properly. I would do that yourself.

Agree that a weekly amount of pocket money for jobs is better. We are about to do that with our DS who is 9. No idea how much to give him though!

When I was growing up we all had jobs to do and they were non-negotiable. There were three of us and they jobs were cleaning the bathroom, tidying, vacuuming and dusting the sitting room, cleaning kitchen. We rotated the jobs when we got bored. We also had to do our own bedrooms and clear kitchen after every evening meal - one washed, one dried, one cleared up and swept floor. We were thrilled when we got a dishwasher! Then we fought over whose turn it was to empty it!

I've heard the arguments strongly espoused both ways: that pocket money should or absolutely should not be contingent on doing jobs.

What I wanted to do was have it both ways: a small amount of pocket money as a right with unlimited top ups if they felt like earning it. Easy in theory, they can't be asked in practice!

At least it cuts down on the amount of junk they can buy, but I would like more help from them.