Pay rent, or face ‘eviction’ — the tough, real-life lesson one mom is teaching her 9-year-old twin daughters

3 weeks ago

A mother has started school her nine-year-old twins “real life lessons” — making them salary rent, fines for messy rooms and moreover consequence “eviction.”

LaToya Whitfield, 38, gives her daughters, Grace and Autumn, weekly lessons connected money, work and nan worth of difficult work.

After her daughters demanded costly dinners doubly successful 1 week a period ago, LaToya bought play money and group up a play costs system.

LaToya Whitfield, is school her twins Grace and Autumn life skills. LaToya Whitfield / SWNS

The twins must salary $80 rent, $10 for electricity, and $5 for WiFi and gas. If they don’t pay, they look “eviction” to nan sunroom.

She besides fines them for soiled rooms but gives bonuses for bully grades and behavior.

LaToya, a HR recruiter and civilization T-shirt business proprietor from Atlanta, said: “I don’t want to make it difficult for them.

Whitfield said she didn’t want to beryllium excessively reliable connected them — but besides wanted to thief them understand really money worked. LaToya Whitfield / SWNS

“I conscionable want to driblet nan seed wrong of them for each of nan lessons that they are learning during this time.”

It each began a period agone erstwhile Grace and Autumn asked to spell to Benihana, a celebrated Japanese hibachi restaurant, doubly successful 1 week.

LaToya said: “I asked nan girls what they wanted for meal and they said hibachi which tin costs a small beautiful penny.

Whitfield said she was inspired to effort retired her unconventional parenting method erstwhile her daughters didn’t understand why she couldn’t return them to a pricey edifice for nan 2nd clip successful 1 week. LaToya Whitfield / SWNS

“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.

“One of nan girls said didn’t you conscionable get paid and I thought ‘Oh that’s really you deliberation this works’.

“So I sewage connected Canva and I created a lease for them to make it consciousness existent and it went from there.”

Now, nan girls must salary their ain measurement — utilizing play money — other look banishment from their bedrooms to an area of nan location known arsenic nan “streets.” LaToya Whitfield / SWNS

LaToya moreover drew up a dress lease — conscionable for illustration a rental statement — listing nan expenses Grace and Autumn must screen aft payday.

Every Friday, nan twins person a paycheck successful their mailbox, which they rate astatine nan family “bank” earlier paying their bills.

Their play expenses see $80 for rent, $10 for electricity, and $5 each for Wi-Fi and gas.

Every Friday, Grace and Autumn person a paycheck, which they must deposit successful nan location “bank.” LaToya Whitfield / SWNS

They tin besides beryllium fined for leaving their room aliases bath dirty, aliases for not cleaning up aft themselves.

If they don’t salary their bills, they look “eviction” to nan sunroom — a cozy abstraction rebranded arsenic nan “streets.”

LaToya said: “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.”

In summation to fines, Grace and Autumn tin gain rewards for bully grades aliases affirmative behaviour specified arsenic practicing effective conflict solution pinch each other.

LaToya hopes that those real-life lessons will instill bully financial work successful her daughters.

She said: “The girls are very responsible and self-sufficient.

“They tin navigator connected a state stove by themselves and heavy cleanable their bathrooms by themselves.

“They moreover support way of their ain grades.

“I americium hoping that not only they will learn, but that they will retrieve this acquisition forever.”