We recently purchased the PEGS system from Family Tools.com.  Might I say it’s fabulous!!!  It’s a wonderful way to help your children not only build character but also get their chores done each day.  My husband and I saw their advertisement in the Spring Issue of This Old Schoolhouse magazine and just got around to spending the 80.00 to buy it.  You can buy a less expensive one for smaller families but we needed the large one with 6 in our family, not counting pets.

We used it for the first day on Friday.  My children raced off to do their chores so that they could flip their disks over indicating the task was completed.  Then it was tons of good manners, good communication and good behavior which awards them BONUS or green disks.  We alot one point per disk per day and keep track of them.  If we have a day with no fighting and everyone has an “all done” day then we get a small reward at the end of the day.  The children may use their accumulated points for things like sleepovers, going for ice cream, a pack of sugarless gum, a night out at the local high school football game etc.  It’s a wonderful way to really see what is important to our children as well as allowing them to choose within boundaries we have set as parents.

I highly recommend the PEGS system.  We use it M-F, taking a break over the weekend.  That way it tends to stay fresh and new.  We change weekly tasks each week, each child being responsible for a different task.  My 5 year old told me on Friday that the Penalty disks (given for bad behavior,

attitude or manners AND can be worked off by apologizing, correcting the behavior or attitude) were worse than spankings.  YEA HA!!!

If you would like to check out the PEGS system you can do so at www.familytools.com.

We’ll keep you posted on our progress.  So far it’s changing our household.  The kids actually try to work together to earn more points for bigger rewards at the end of the week.  I think I’ve died and gone to heaven.