Mrs Smith has two daughters. They are learning to help her do some chores and she pays them for their work. The harder they work, the more they get.
Alice started doing chores two years ago. At that time, she did the dishes with her mother together and she had to sweep the floor. She is ten years old now. She is now doing the dishes herself and has to wash the clothes, too.
Amy is four and she started doing chores thisJuly. She cleans the table after dinner, and she also learns to f old her own clothes. She likes to help her sister water the flowers, but she falls down too many times. So her mother asks her to stop it.
Every week, Alice gets $3 and Amy gets $2from their mother. Mrs Smith disagrees with some of her neighbours. She thinks it's a very good idea to provide kids with pocket money by asking them to do chores. "Doing chores can help the children understand the meaning of fairness. And pocket money can keep them from wasting things," she says to her neighbours.
