Teaching our kids how to be responsible is an important part of being a parent. One day, they will move out of our homes and have to take care of themselves. Far too many moms are aware of what could happen if children aren’t properly taught how: They become adults who are incapable of cleaning up or paying their own bills.
One mom has a viral video series where she’s teaching her young daughters responsibility by making them “pay” household bills. And people are heaping her with praise.
The mom has made over a dozen videos showing how she’s teaching her daughters.
Mom LaToya Whitfield is sharing her “real life project” on her TikTok account. In a viral video series, the mom shares videos of how she’s teaching her 9-year-old twin daughters how to be financially responsible adults.
Her project began after her girls asked her for expensive dinners out two times in one week. “I asked the girls what they wanted for dinner and they said hibachi which can cost a little pretty penny,” she said in an interview with SWNS via the New York Post. “So I told the girls I didn’t have any more hibachi money this week and I would have to sell more T-shirts or something else in order to make the money.”
When one of her daughters inquired about a recent payday, Whitfield knew it was time for an important lesson.
She has created a specific system that mimics the reality many adults face.
Whitfield went onto Canva to create a lease for her daughters “to make it feel real.” Everything began falling into place after they signed it. The lease details all of the bills and expenses they must cover after getting paid.
Every Friday, the girls receive a paycheck in their mailbox. They then cash it out in the household “bank.” Their weekly bills include $80 for rent, $10 for electricity, and $5 each for Wi-Fi and gas. The girls also face fines if cleanliness is not achieved. If they don’t pay their bills, they face “eviction” to “the street,” which is just the sunroom.
Whitfield says the project is making her girls ‘self-sufficient.‘
“They can cook on a gas stove by themselves and deep clean their bathrooms by themselves,” Whitfield claimed. The mom isn’t interested in making life “hard” for her daughters.
“I just want to drop the seed inside of them for all of the lessons that they are learning during this time,” she explained. She also said she hopes that “not only they will learn, but that they will remember this experience forever.”
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The viral video series has a lot of supporters.
Across the many videos Whitfield has created to detail the project, people heap on the praise.
“I just ordered play money off amazon. I am implementing this ASAP! Love it!!!!” one person wrote.
“This whole series is beautiful! What a fantastic lesson and a fun way to teach these girls! Genius!!” another commenter exclaimed.
“That’s good parenting right there,” another person chimed in.
“I love this so much- I wish more parents taught their kids financial awareness and money management!” someone else commented.
“That is good parenting teaching them how to learn their money and their responsibilities,” another comment reads. “Great job.”
