Marble Reward System

So I have two kids who love to play lego on 360 but do not love to do chores! I must be the ONLY parent who deals with this! yeah right.......

Anyway I found a great system that so far seems to work! YAY :)
Here it is:

I start out every week giving my kids and "allowance" of marbles. They get 10. Each marble is worth 10 minutes of game time. In order to have more game time they have to do their chores. Since they are both different ages, the chores differ a bit but not much. Each time they do a chore they get a marble or two depending on what chore it was. We homeschool, so doing school work, without complaining, gets marbles also. Extra marbles for doing things when not asked. Gold "special" marbles for excellent behavior. A gold marble is an hour of play!

They lose marbles for bad behavior!

So now they have marbles and want to play......

I let them count out the marbles that they have. We count by 10's since they are for 10 minutes each. I ask them how much they want to play and let them decide. The most they can play at one time is 40 minutes. I set the timer for them and take out that much marbles. After 40 minutes they have to turn game off and find something else to do. They may come back after 20 minutes or so to play if they have enough marbles. All game playing stops by dinner time. They can still earn marbles for the next day though :)

They can roll their marbles over to the next day but the same rules always apply- no more then 40 minutes on and at least 20 off. Since this is like an allowance they are allowed to spend their marble on stuff but they lose them from their jar and would have to work to get them back.

Today is our first "real" day doing this. Mason was looking for things to do! :)