During an at-home date night, we sat down and typed out a list of behaviors that could earn pennies, a list of offenses that could lose them, and a list of rewards for which the pennies could be redeemed. We prayed over this new system and asked the Lord to bless it with success and us with the will to consistently apply it. And then we announced to Ezra, Simon, and Della (our only children old enough at the time to understand the concept) that they would be receiving pennies for things like kind speech, finishing a book, memorizing Bible verses, going the extra mile (in any scenario),
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