Friday, April 4, 2014

Leveling Up Your Children

I don't know about you but my kids are into leveling up characters and earning points for online games.  Since they have figured out that doing certain actions has a return of a certain reward, I figured why not transfer that right over to their actual life.

Lets start with chores, everyone wants their kids to do chores. The kids may want to actually do them also if it gets them 1-5 experience points.

Here's a list of chores that you can assign values to: http://thehappyhousewife.com/home-management/files/2012/07/age-appropriate-chores-for-kids-1.pdf

Another idea is to have Scouting Merit Badges needed to reach the next level.
Find them here: http://www.scouting.org/meritbadges.aspx
They have a very detailed account of what is required for each badge.

What do you think? Any suggestions?

Level 1
Pick up all toys in entire house (1 time)
Put clothes in the dirty hamper (1 time)
Make bed (1 time)
Clear the table (1 time)
Quest: find 2 different kinds of weeds in the yard and pull 3 of each.

Level 2