Tool — run your own
Bounty Board
Earn your fun.
Nagging a kid about chores doesn't work — I've run the experiment. What does work is the same thing that works on adults: post the job, name the price, and let them decide it's worth it. Bounty Board turns chores into bounties.
How it works
Chores go up on the board with a dollar amount attached. Instead of "go wash the car" (a fight), there's a standing bounty (an opportunity). Bigger jobs pay out in milestones — washing the driver's window earns a little, all four side windows earns more, finishing the quarter-glass and rear pays out the rest — so a big job started is worth something even if it isn't finished in one go.
A locked parent mode handles the other side of the counter: posting bounties, setting rewards, and verifying that "done" means done before the money moves.
It reframes the whole conversation. Allowance isn't an entitlement and chores aren't a punishment — it's a tiny labor market, and my son is a willing participant in it. Mostly.
Run your own
Bounty Board is a single-page static app — the code lives at github.com/jpaul156/taskmaster, and hosting it costs nothing on GitHub Pages.