Reward and Encourage Skills and Knowledge that are beyond what most kids can do.
Life and Success Skills Development are best.

Any relative or mentor can contribute $ or points toward some reward  Make up your own reward score card.
Offer an Extra reward for a verbal or written report on what was learned and the lessons learned from what was done.

From Dave Savage  404 323-8686 dave@davesavage.com  www.davesavage.com  www.MemoryKeepersVideo.com
Please send me any suggestions to add to this list.

Here are some ideas:

$25 for touch typing 25 words a minute
$100 for touch typing 50 words a minute
$50 for juggling 3 balls for 15 seconds and another $50 for juggling 4 balls 15 seconds.
$5 for every self development tape set you listen to.
$2 for listening to CDs of parent selected music 
   (exposure to hundreds of types of music)   (reward for identifying selected music or composer)
$2 watch selected classic movies on video
$3 watch selected informational videos

$5 know the definition of the selected words in a heritage language list and use them in a sentence.

$1 to learn and use each rope knot, and $1 to demonstrate a knot a  week after learning it.  (truckers knot is always helpful)
$1 to learn how to flip food in a sautè pan like a chef
$1 to learn each style of neck tie knot.

$  to be able to say hello, goodbye, thank you etc in different languages.

$  to know the location of major cities and other geography in the US and the world.

$1 for each unsolicited comment by people to your parents complementing you for manners, behavior, attitude  etc.
fixing bicycle flat tire
make a hospital bed corner
how to properly polish a pair of shoes
grow a vegetable from seed that I can eat when ripe
to be able to iron a shirt and pants
demonstrate how to floss teeth
to identify hand tools and show how to use them
sew on a button
fold cloth napkin in a fancy style
identify the bones of your body
pick a company on the stock exchange and be able to follow it and quote approximate price on request
hard boil an egg so that the shell comes off easily
make fluffy rice
seeing selected theatrical plays
interviewing adults for career advice and experience
identifying tools and supplies at the hardware store – know what they are used for.
identify musical instruments
identify classical music by name or composer
identify locations on local, state, national and world maps
identify countries by their flags

Life skills encouraged
learning how to use a sewing machine
backing up the car or truck into a space with a trailer attached
identifying trees, edible plants, birds by site or call
learning how to cook/prepare various things

Services to dad
wash and wax his car  $10
gardening/ landscaping

memorizing and reciting famous quotes, stanzas and poems

reading the Roman numerals at the end of movies to know when they came out or the SuperBowl year.

reading selected books:   extra reward for a discussion of the ideas and messages of the book  as it is being read
Many of the classics are free on the internet
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
The Little Prince
Classics   like Horatio Alger 

Reading important things aloud and with feeling.  (theatrical and presentation reading style)
Gettysburg address
Declaration of independence

Measure your body parts and then estimate the size of things.
Finger tips to elbow is almost a foot, thumb and pinky spread apart is 6” , arms stretched out is ?,  wrist to finger tips is?
Ground to the bottom of your knee cap is ?