making work fun

This morning's post from Stephanie Nielson was about "Job Balls" for her children. Pure genius!! I'm stashing it here for future use.. : ) 


Here is a copy/paste of her post:

Job balls.

Asking my little children nicely to do things around the house wasn't cutting it anymore.
I needed something genius. Something that would work. Something down right fun.
So I came up with a plan.
It had to do with colorful balls.
And it had to work.

I wrote jobs down on the 50 soft golf ball sized balls. I have to admit coming up with 50 jobs became hard...after about the 25th one I was writing jobs such as:
"hug sister" or "pick up 10 strands of Jimmy hair on the couch.

I am making a tally of all the jobs done, and whoever has the most tallies, gets to pick out a treat.
Works for them, works for me. Hopefully this will last longer than a few weeks.