How to use sending your kids up to bed early as a logical consequence, not a punishment

I just sent my younger two kids up to bed because they did not help with cleaning. But I just wanna talk about how to use that without it being like a punishment, but just being a logical consequence. So number one, the reward and consequence, they just have to be part of your daily routine. It can't just be like, today you're getting a sticker, today you're not getting a cookie, you're not getting a popsicle. Also, just avoid food-based rewards and punishments in general. They are not good for your child's eating habits or relationship with food. Every night what we do after dinner is the grown ups clean up the food and then the kids have to clean up all the toys. And if they do it pretty quickly, like before it's dark outside, then they get to have some extra special time. And that can be kind of anything each day. Maybe it's watching a little show with us, maybe playing a game with us, um, reading extra books in the living room, anything like that. My 5.5 year old has grown into a great cleaner because we've always done this and she's the one that's up cleaning right now. Um, and she also doesn't have like resentment and bitterness toward her siblings because she knows she's gonna get something extra special if they don't help her. My 1.5 year old, I have a very low floor for what counts as helping as long as she does something, like she's gonna earn. But my 3.5 year old, like, really wasn't cleaning. And she just came up and was like, I don't wanna clean, I don't wanna help. And I just said, you know, that's fine, but that means it's bedtime. And I didn't make it a big deal, I didn't make it some big punishment. I didn't hang it over her head. I just said, okay, you know, if you're not gonna clean, then it is time to go to bed. And tonight she was fine with that trade off. And I also think she was just super tired, so she needed to go to bed. And she was kind of at her limit for even being able to, like, be regulated and rested enough to be cleaning at this time. 5.5 YO: "She couldn't control herself?" Yeah, her self control was kind of like, getting lower cause she was so tired. I'd say about half the time my middle wants to earn the extra special, like, prize at the end of the night, and half the time she doesn't really care and she just wants to go to bed. And at her age, that's actually pretty good that she's able to independently clean half the time. I'm also not setting up some big, like, power struggle because, you know, she has the choice to not clean, and then she just doesn't earn. And even though in the short-term she's not cleaning up every single night, my main goal is for her to build a positive association with cleaning and not just like hate it. So I'm fine with that short-term loss if it means in the long-term she's gonna be better at cleaning and more self-motivated. So yeah, just focus on building a daily routine in your home that includes some sort of reinforcement or reward that your child enjoys. But don't be giving them all these like little tokens, like stickers and promising a toy and stuff like that, because that's not how you use reinforcement to build intrinsic motivation. You're just building extrinsic motivation at that point. 5.5 YO: "And I'm almost done cleaning!!" You're almost done?? 5.5 YO: "I love you"