I bought the girls piggy banks a couple of months ago and they love putting money into them. I told them that if they found any coins lying around in any room other than my bedroom they can have it and put it in their piggy banks. I will occasionally seed the living room or the kitchen with pennies and nickels and watch the excitement as they find what they all quarters. I have found that any coin is a quarter in their eyes.
They have now decided that they need more money to put in their piggy banks, so I have given them an ongoing job. I have a bad habit in the garden - I will pull weeds but I won't put them in a bag and dispose of them. I told them that for every garbage bag of weeds they fill I will give them a dollar. I am the final arbiter of how full they need to fill the bags. They both loved the idea. We went to Menards and bought them some work gloves with Spongebob on Breonna's and Diego in Jordan's. I started pulling weeds and piling them up between them.
Jordan started out strong but lost interest almost immediately. She went and started playing with some wood chips on the top terrace. Breonna actually stuck with it until her bag was almost full. I think she is starting to see some value in patience and perseverance because she just lit up when we gave her that dollar bill. Jordan was mildly disappointed with her dime, but when she went to put it in her bank she promptly lost it - took her 5 seconds to lose track of it.
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