Disneyland Jars

We are taking the kids to Disneyland next month. We've worked so hard on our 2 houses the past 2 yrs that we all need a break. The kids are too young to grasp the concept, but they deserve this trip. They have been troopers throughout our house projects as they have been a little neglected while we've been working so hard.

I've been trying to find a reward/punishment system lately. Brooklyn is a drama queen and time out just doesn't work very well. Somehow I came up with the idea of Disneyland jars. I'm not a fan of rewarding with money because I don't want the kids to focus so much on money. But I didn't have anything else, and money is a huge motivating factor for little kids. So we sat down one morning and decorated our jars. I had a bunch of Disney stickers that the kids got to put on their jars.
Now they get to earn money to put in their jars to earn their trip to Disneyland. We'll let them take their money on our trip and they can buy something there. So far it is working SO much better than I thought it would. They love to help out, sometimes for the money but sometimes just to help. They also HATE it when they are naughty and I take money out. Brooklyn especially hates when I take money out. So hopefully we can keep this up!

Of course Brynlee loved hanging out with us all. We tried some veges, but it didn't go over so well. We've got to keep working on rice cereal first.