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I always love it when I find an app that truly works as I imagine it should and makes something in my daily life a little easier. I’m Anna, a long-time contributor here at 5 Minutes for Mom, and I’m excited to introduce you to a new free app called Homey that will help you teach your kids about money through chores. This post is sponsored, (many thanks to Homey) and extra thanks to you for reading and sharing!
Having a Type A personality means I adore spending time planning things, making lists and charts, and creating printables for my family to use and to help them remember their responsibilities around the house. Sometimes these charts and lists work great, sometimes they don’t. And the worst thing is when someone forgets to mark their chore or responsibility off and the routine gets out of whack.
Printables can be great, but at the same time, with technology in our pockets, having an app that is with us all the time makes taking care of so many things so much easier!
Homey asked me if I’d like to try out their chore app. I was excited to try it out because it’s so much more than a chore chart with check boxes. Homey helps you teach your kids responsibility and the value of work and financial skills and also rewards them for setting and achieving goals.
One of the biggest struggles I have as a parent is getting my kids to actually do their chores. I don’t like to nag them, but I do expect chores to be done by a certain time each day. I don’t like everyone running around right before bed trying to get their chores done, that makes for a stressful evening. With Homey, you get notifications when your chores are due and this eliminates me having to remind them 12,847 times during the day.
There are several “packs” of chores that are categorized and make it easy to get set up and going. Download a pack, select which chores you want for each household member…
Then you can “fine tune” each chore to recur, be due at a specific time and day, and even rotate among members of your household.
You can set chores to require a photo as proof they’ve completed the chore. I like this for some chores to make sure my kids have completed a chore to my standards and to prevent them from taking the easy way out.1
Chores are worth coins or points. Coins are for chores that are paid, points are for chores that are not paid. I especially love this feature because I expect my kids to do certain things around the house that are simply their responsibility, a help around the house because we are family and work together to maintain the home.
A new feature that Homey has just recently released is the ability to transfer allowance to their kid’s accounts. You can link your child’s bank accounts allowing you to deposit rewards directly. How convenient?! Homey is so much more than just a chores app.
Along with this is the goals feature. I love this because it enables you to teach your kids about financial responsibility and rewards. Kids (and parents) can see how much more is needed to reach a certain goal and get a certain reward. The parent gets to choose what the rewards are, suggestions being an allowance, a certain toy, screen time, or anything the parent can think of. Setting different rewards helps to teach children delayed gratification, they might want to redeem their rewards for a $1 toy, but the feeling of accomplishment by waiting for the higher value reward is the best and leads to better financial responsibility.
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Disclosure: This post is sponsored, so extra thanks for reading and sharing.
Written by Anna Hettick, contributor at 5 Minutes for Mom who also blogs at FoodandDIY.com.
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Meghan says
Love that it’s all inclusive
Jamie Pinkney says
We have 4 youngsters in our home and when I round them up to do chores I feel like it’s another job for me ! I end up forgetting half the stuff that needs to be done and do it myself. I think the most useful thing I love about this app would be timed reminders and each job given to a different family member. Thanks for the opportunity Jamie
Amanda Stovall says
I like that you can set different type rewards & incentives for different chores… Sometimes rewarding with something like screen time is much more fitting for certain chores, than let’s say, giving them $. Because sometimes the chores they’re doing are simply their responsibilities & they don’t need to think they should get paid $ every single time they lift a finger around the house! 🙂
LeAnn Harbert says
You can put their allowance right into their account..
Mustafa says
I like this
Janine Hwang says
I like this as a way to teach responsibility to my kids
Christy Barber says
What a great idea!
heather c says
Favorite features is allowing for photo proof! Nice!
DanV says
We’ve been looking for a way to track chores so this would be great
Kevin Puls says
I have yet to use Homey, but it looks very useful for my everyday hectic schedule.
Kenya Johnson says
I love the auto transferring from the parents account to the child’s accounts.
Angela Thorpe says
It deposits rewards directly.
Lisa A says
The ability to transfer allowances into their accounts is awesome!
Katrina Brockavich says
My favorite feature is that they can take pictures of the chore and show how well they did it! That would help when I’m at work and their dad is watching them but I assigned the chores. I can actually be the one seeing if it’s done the way I wanted!
Katrina Brockavich says
Thanks for this review, as I’m downloading this app to get started on the free edition now!
Natalie says
Love the sweetness of it
Nay says
I love the included feature of optional paid and non-paid rewards for completed tasks. Children must learn that not every task/chore should be rewarded with money.
Gina Weeks says
Awesome app!!!
— Gina W.
Wendy R. says
I’m not entering because I don’t have young kids at home any longer, but this is a really cool app!
Jacqi says
Love the features of this app. Definitely want to try it out. Love having ways of teaching responsibility.
colleenmarie says
I think my type A oldest would love this app, she loves to see what she needs to do and to track the progress of that.
Melanie Odette says
Oh, I would love to win this!! We need this so badly in our lives. Thanks for the chance to win!
Leela says
It deposits rewards directly.
Jess Speck says
I am sooooo doing this!! And I will use your affiliate link! Thank you! I was JUST fantasizing up a plan to do something exactly like this yesterday, honest to gosh. I give my kids a pretty darn great allowance and they do almost nothing for it. Now they can earn more and be more self-reliant, less lazy, and learn about housework and responsibility!! This is fabulous! Goodbye doormat mom!! Hello responsible kids!