Mom Makes Her 9-Year-Old Twin Daughters Pay Rent and Utilities — Here’s Why

A mom is explaining why she makes her 9-year-old copy daughters salary rent and utilities astatine home.

LaToya Whitfield said she was inspired to instrumentality nan unconventional parenting argumentation 1 period ago, aft her daughters, Grace and Autumn, requested "expensive" dinners retired doubly successful 1 week, per SWNS.

“I asked nan girls what they wanted for dinner, and they said hibachi, which tin costs a small beautiful penny," recalled Whitfield, 38, an HR recruiter and proprietor of a civilization T-shirt business successful Atlanta.

“So I told nan girls I didn’t person immoderate much hibachi money this week and I would person to waste much T-shirts aliases thing other successful bid to make nan money," she continued. “One of nan girls said, 'Didn’t you conscionable get paid?' and I thought, ‘Oh, that’s really you deliberation this works.' "

Whitfield past decided that it was clip to thatch nan girls immoderate "real-life lessons astir money and nan worth of difficult work. She utilized Canva to create "a lease for them to make it consciousness real." In summation to $80 for rent, nan lease outlines that Grace and Autumn are responsible for paying $10 for energy and $5 for WiFi and gas.

To thief them screen their bills, nan twins person a "paycheck" each Friday. They rate it astatine nan family "bank" earlier paying their "landlord" mom.

If they neglect to pay, they look "eviction" — successful nan sunroom successful their home, which Whitfield rebranded arsenic "the streets." The girls are fined for specified things arsenic not cleaning up aft themselves aliases having a messy bedroom.

On nan flip side, Grace and Autumn tin gain rewards for bully grades and affirmative behavior.

“I conscionable want to driblet nan seed wrong of them for each of nan lessons that they are learning during this time," Whitfield said of nan family's costs system.

Already, Whitfield is seeing encouraging results successful her daughters.

“The girls are very responsible and self-sufficient," nan proud mom said. “They tin navigator connected a state stove by themselves and heavy cleanable their bathrooms by themselves. They moreover support way of their ain grades."

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Ultimately, Whitfield said she hopes her daughters transportation these money and life lessons into adulthood truthful that they believe financial work and understand nan worth of a dollar.

“I dream that this is thing that will popular successful their mind erstwhile they get older and they person to commencement making these decisions connected their own," she said. “I americium hoping that not only they will learn, but that they will retrieve this acquisition forever.”