Family Point System
Wendy nested yesterday, and I love when she does that.
"Nesting" is when she has some free time at home (one of her classes was rescheduled) and she uses the time to clean and reorganize our house. Yesterday she did yardwork, cleaned the kitchen, set up a Ceiva receiver (automatically receives images from the Internet), and reorganized our bedroom so we wake up in the morning to the light and the trees in the yard. I've got to give her 40 points for that.
"What are points?" her uncle asked the other day. We were leaving to go to dinner and I couldn't find my glasses. Wendy said she knew where they were and that she would tell me, but it would cost 10 points.
Points were something we started when we were in Barbados. Basically, they are a reward currency that we trade between each other to recognize extra effort--and because we're always inventing new games. We haven't formalized the rules for when points are awarded, or how much to award in different circumstances, but we did set some ground rules:
"Nesting" is when she has some free time at home (one of her classes was rescheduled) and she uses the time to clean and reorganize our house. Yesterday she did yardwork, cleaned the kitchen, set up a Ceiva receiver (automatically receives images from the Internet), and reorganized our bedroom so we wake up in the morning to the light and the trees in the yard. I've got to give her 40 points for that.
"What are points?" her uncle asked the other day. We were leaving to go to dinner and I couldn't find my glasses. Wendy said she knew where they were and that she would tell me, but it would cost 10 points.
Points were something we started when we were in Barbados. Basically, they are a reward currency that we trade between each other to recognize extra effort--and because we're always inventing new games. We haven't formalized the rules for when points are awarded, or how much to award in different circumstances, but we did set some ground rules:
- Point awards are given at the sole discretion of the awarder
- Points are awarded for purely optional activities.
- Awardees cannot petition for points after an event, which is known as point-grubbing.
- An awarder can penalize an awardee ten points for point grubbing if the awardee doesn't desist from point grubbing after an official warning from the awarder.
- No points can be awarded for fulfilling family obligation (since that is not optional)
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