Boo is a great kid: full of energy, excited about everything, independent, well-behaved…….UNTIL she wants juice. Then we have tantrums, yelling, screaming etc. It’s crazy! The “juice” demands became so out of control that now first thing every morning she gets juice money. If she runs out of juice dollars she has to drink water. She’s getting really good at budgeting.
Now she weighs her options: should I drink juice now or save it for later?
Wow! What a great idea! My little girl is a juice MONSTER too! She has to have it or she acts like she is dying! I’ll have to try this! Thanks
Ha! Brilliant. 🙂
Will you be my Mommy????? I love all of your ideas. How cute is this! Juice money!!! <3
I need someone to make me Diet Mt. Dew money!
I need to do this with Pediasure!
I don’t need juice money, I need TV money. Great idea. Thanks!
What a brilliant idea!!!
what a fantastic idea! am gonna try this with weekly “choc money” and daily “juice money” 😉
Wow what a good idea!!! I am lucky my little one loves water and asks for it regularly! This may work for some other snacks in our house though…..
I wonder if I could use this with my husband and soda??? Something to think about!!
I was thinking the exact same thing! lol My girls are really good about drinks, but snacks are their weakness, and my hubby ‘just has to have’ pop…lol…thanks for an easy solution Ashley! 😀
I need to give myself cookie money!
Love the idea! May adapt to my kiddos for a few other items 🙂 Has she negotiated adding water to make it last longer?
You just amaze me! That is the smartest parenting idea I have seen! I LOVE it and am going to do it with my twins. They throw huge fits about juice, and you can imagine what that’s like with 2 of them. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Haha! Perhaps I should do this with my daughter. She tends to be this way about milk. 🙂
Very clever!!! Love reading all of your blogs!!! I am going to have to do this!!!
This is a great idea – one I’ll be adapting and doing at our house too!
I am starting this tomorrow!! It is the same thing around our house!!!
I like this idea…may tweak it for tv shows!
Cool idea.
I wonder how long a kid could go without hearing of TV or juice or soda or whatever? Do they always get candy and soda when they’re old enough to go to school anyway? I always figured I would have a “no soda for the kids” rule in my house, but figure that’s likely impossible. I’d never thought of juice money or TV money or setting a certain number of times a day a kid could have something. I like the idea… cute and effective.
I think it’s possible. We don’t do soda or candy in our house and we have a limit on TV, and the kiddos don’t freak out because that’s just the way life works here. Now, the computer…yikes! It’s tricky when you’re trying to establish limits, and the kids remember a time when there were no limits, or the limits gave them more computer. I imagine that’s where the budgeting games come in really handy.
I LOVE this! My 2 1/2 year old is a crazed juice monster. She even wakes up in the middle of the night asking for it. This is such an awesome idea! Thanks so much for sharing!! 🙂
thank you so much for this idea, you just saved my sanity. im going to use this concept for a bunch of things, you dont know how much this has helped
that is so clever!!!! we had a juice monster in our house for a while.
so smart!
Love it! My daughter is 6 and we have told her she gets one cup of koolaid or gatorade and one cup of juice a day, then she can have as much milk or water as she can swallow. I will definitely be doing this if we have anymore issues.
I love this idea. I think I may use this plus a little added dollars she can earn for other things. I am having huge behavior issues. Thanks
cute! I need to do this with my kiddos
Hysterical!
LOVE this idea. Emily is so addicted!!! We really water down the juice but she is truly an addict and we ration it out.
Too funny! It is a good tool for teaching a little self control!
I loved this idea so much I even made my husband read this post. I think I will apply it to the number of times my son asks to watch cartoons. Drives me crazy!
Oh my! What a GREAT idea! My little Lily is a juice and animal cracker monster after her naps! I should really try this out! I can also see using this idea for other items with my older girls! Thanks for sharing! 🙂