Sick of giving unappreciated rides to your kids?
Implementing the “Ride Board” has been a game-changer at our house.

How it Works

Before our kids can ask us for a ride somewhere, they have to have enough time banked on the ride board for that particular ride.

Ride Cost

I have posted a list of common ride request destinations (I categorized these by neighborhood), with an amount of minutes next to it.  The minutes include the time it takes not only to get there, but also for me to get home after dropping them off. This is one lesson I really wanted my kids to learn: they think it’s a 10-minute ride, but in reality, it’s 20 minutes for me, because I still have to get home.
Then if they are going to need a ride back home from that place, that will cost them another 20 minutes. Because guess what?  That’s another round trip for MOM. Another 20 minutes out of MOM’s day.

How to Earn Ride Minutes

There are a bunch of chores available at any given time for my kids to choose from, to earn ride minutes.
They NEVER expire.  In fact, I encourage them to bank as many minutes as possible as soon as they can, so they always have plenty in the bank for when last-minute opportunities come up!

Other Details

• This ride arrangement is strictly for “extra” rides for fun (like hanging out with friends). We do not charge our kids ride time for rides having to do with school, sports, or church.
• If 2 kids want a ride to the same place (or even the same neighborhood), they can share ride time. So if it’s a 20-minute round trip, they can each deduct 10 minutes from their balance and they both get the ride. **Bonus: this teaches them to negotiate and work together to conserve not only gas, but time**
• If I have a job that I need done but that isn’t printed out on a sticky note, I just quickly hand write it, assign it a time, and slap it up for them to choose from.
• After using the Ride Board for about a week, I noticed that there were a handful of jobs that weren’t getting picked, but I really wanted them to get picked 😂 (like emptying the dishwasher).  So even though emptying the dishwasher takes less than 10 minutes, I bumped the time up to 15 minutes, to make it more appealing.  This has proven to be just the encouragement they needed.
• Where I do try to keep pretty close to a minute-for-minute arrangement, sometimes the times don’t exactly line up.  For example: I have helping/learning to cook dinner worth 30 minutes, but then cooking dinner alone is worth 60 minutes, regardless of how long the meal actually takes to make. This makes logical sense to me, because even if it’s a 20-minute meal, if they can do it without my help, that’s worth 60 minutes to me!!!

What this Purchase Includes

• Canva template to create your own chores for your own ride board
• Canva tutorial video showing you how to edit the file
• Detailed instructions of how to print out sticky notes

NO PHYSICAL PRODUCT WILL BE MAILED TO YOU