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My daughter (7) wants to do chores for money. I have been putting it off, because I don't want to commit myself to something that I will later regret. Has anyone else offered paid chores? Any suggestions about it? For reference, I am an extremely bad housekeeper with a toddler at home, so everything just keeps getting messy again immediately, and I have turned down her suggestion that she could clean up a space whenever it seems messy, since that's basicially immediately after tidying.
I would almost rather pay her to do slow concentration tasks, like crafts and reading, since that is what I actually want her to start doing more of. An artist I talked to, for instance, said she paid her daughter to read books like Harry Potter aloud while she painted.
I'd be careful about that "for" in "do chores for money".
She should do chores because it's part of maintaining a household. She should have money because it teaches planning and responsibility (including responsibility for creating her own fun). I don't think you could create something employment-like enough to give those benefits, which is why I'm opposed to linking them together.
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