My kids like sleeping in the living room—but often don’t clean up in the morning. I used a bond for that and it worked. In a family conference, we later decided on a ban to not sleep in the living room for a week if it is not cleaned up but that was not my preferred way.
I also often require a bond if the kids want to borrow money or something but e.g. have open dues.
I bet with them quite often and they bet among themselves—including nonequal odds. I win more often than not and they learned from that. I once did lose 50 EUR at 10:1 odds to my oldest son because I was very confident about one of our house rules but it turned out my wife had changed it shortly before. With the smaller boys, I require that they do the bet in front of an arbiter and I may limit the amount they bet.
We also play Bluff, Yahtzee, and other board games with dice and I guess that also helps with an understanding of probability.
Kind of related to that: A fun game is “random walks”: Talk a walk and at every corner throw a die and continue into the randomly chosen direction. Repeat as desired. Can lead to interesting places especially in parks.
I have done both things with my boys.
My kids like sleeping in the living room—but often don’t clean up in the morning. I used a bond for that and it worked. In a family conference, we later decided on a ban to not sleep in the living room for a week if it is not cleaned up but that was not my preferred way.
I also often require a bond if the kids want to borrow money or something but e.g. have open dues.
I bet with them quite often and they bet among themselves—including nonequal odds. I win more often than not and they learned from that. I once did lose 50 EUR at 10:1 odds to my oldest son because I was very confident about one of our house rules but it turned out my wife had changed it shortly before. With the smaller boys, I require that they do the bet in front of an arbiter and I may limit the amount they bet.
We also play Bluff, Yahtzee, and other board games with dice and I guess that also helps with an understanding of probability.
Kind of related to that: A fun game is “random walks”: Talk a walk and at every corner throw a die and continue into the randomly chosen direction. Repeat as desired. Can lead to interesting places especially in parks.