Rewards and routines

Rewards, checklists and routines live in Tasks and chores. They help the whole house, and they make chores easier to sell to kids.

Chores and pet care can carry points. The person who finishes one gets the points, and the points board shows the totals.

Adults set up rewards that kids and teens can trade their points for, like extra screen time, a treat, picking the Friday movie or an outing. Each reward has a cost in points, and it can have a limit on how many times a week each person can have it.

1. A kid picks a reward and taps to ask for it.
2. An adult sees the request waiting, and approves or declines it.
3. When it is approved, the points come off. If there are not enough points, it cannot be approved yet.

The Brain points out a request that is waiting, to owners and adults only.

Keep reusable lists for the jobs that come back: packing for a trip, a deep clean, moving house, a new school year or hosting guests. Start from a built-in template or write your own, tick lines off as you go, and see how much is left. Save a list as a template and use it again next time.

A routine is a daily checklist for a child, like a morning routine or a bedtime routine. It starts fresh every day: yesterday’s ticks do not count today, and nobody has to reset it. Children can tick the lines on their own lists.

Put a question to the household in Talk, like “Pizza or tacos on Friday?”. Allow one choice or several, set a closing time if you like, and turn on anonymous voting when you want honest answers. Anonymous polls show the counts, never who voted for what. Open polls also show on Home.

Mark any event on the calendar as a countdown, like a trip or a visit from Grandma, and Home shows the days left.

• “How many points does Theo have?”
• “What can Theo redeem?”
• “What’s left on the packing list?”
• “What did we vote for dinner?”
• “How many days until the trip?”

Rewards, checklists and routines, polls and countdowns are on every plan, including Free.