Do your kids do chores? And if they do, do you pay them for their services? In our house, we figure everyone needs to contribute to maintaining the homestead in a community sorta way, and so we don’t pay our children (who are 9 and 11) to wash dishes, take out and bring back in [...]

Photo: Photos8.com, Flickr We don’t do allowance in our house, just seems like the chores our kids do come with the territory. You know, the “you live here, so you must contribute” territory. But some kids do get a weekly pay, and I guess that’s OK, too. In fact, I just read about this idea, [...]