Chores.

Turner will soon be the big man on campus. A four year old who gets to stay with Ms. Carolyn (because he probably won’t be in school this summer so I didn’t want him to start a new class for just a couple of months. Plus, I’m pretty sure Turner thinks Ms. Carolyn is his personal companion through the Catalina school system.). So, he will soon be four and is consistently asking to have things bought for him. This makes me think it is time for an allowance and, thus, time for household responsibilities. This morning I explain the process of allowance and chores to him. I tell him to think about it today so we can make a chart later about what he should do each week to earn his allowance. When I pick him up from school, I ask him what he thinks his four-year-old chores should be. He thinks. Then he says, “Picking up my room,” which we had talked about this morning as an example chore, “and….” Long pause “I think when I get my wooden sword I should be in charge of cutting down the trees. Well, not cutting them down, but trimming them up. Yeah, I think that should be my sponsibility, slicing the trees with my wooden sword.”