I have, admittedly, initiated a number of “programs” at home
throughout the years for the kids that have flopped; notably the multiple chore
sticker charts (don’t thrive when your kids aren’t driven by money!). But I think I have a winner this time! Sick of poor manners at the dinner table and
even sicker of repeating the same orders time and again, I created the list of
dinner rules to follow. If even one is
broken during dinnertime, NO DESSERT.
This is like a dagger to the heart for Luke. He cherishes his desserts more than anything
and seeing that it is immediate (dessert is directly after dinner) helps as
well. When I told the kids what we were
doing and read the rules for the first time, I got halfway through reading rule
#2 before Luke let out a loud. “AAAHHHHHHHH, THESE RULES ARE IMPOSSIBLE. I’M
NEVER GOING TO HAVE DESSERT AGAIN!!!”
Week one and no child has broken a rule yet.
Luke was talking about school one day and said, “We have
this one girl in class. She is SO
SMART. She listens to the teacher the
WHOLE TIME!” I really couldn’t stop
laughing at this one. He was dead
serious with this comment and was completely astonished that someone would
actually listen to what the teacher was saying without interruption. He did go on to say that what he does is
listens then talks to his friends about bigfoot or something then listens some
more and looks around the classroom…..
Paige has funny little sayings. When someone is eating something healthy
(fruit, veggies) she says, “oh, are you in healthy mode?” or if she chooses
something healthy over junk food, she says, “I’m in healthy mode right now.”
I was brushing Paige’s hair this morning after her
shower. After I got the knots out and it
was pretty much brushed she said, “I need to have the brush now so I can
complete my style”
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