Apparently I forgot that I have a blog. Life has been a blur of birthday parties and field trips and "funwork" (who are those preschool teachers kidding?), website and Handmade Parade planning and the list goes on and on and on...
The most creative I have been lately was making up sticker reward charts for my kids. Aaron told them last week that he'd take them to Chucky Cheese's "sometime". Sometime....Really, dude? Do you not know the persistence of our children?? Since Thursday my life has been punctuated with "Are we going to CC yet? " "When do we get to go to CC?" "Mom, CC is SO FUN."
Well, first kids CC is not fun. In fact it is the complete opposite of fun. Mommy intensely dislikes CC. Intensely.
And second my darlings have been, shall we say...less than darling lately. Not exactly the key to getting Mommy to haul you all out to her least favorite place on Earth.
Hence the reward chart was born. I decided after Peanut got her third straight "We didn't have a very good day..." from her preschool teachers something needed to be done. Oddly the thought of behaving in order to go to CC appealed to both my children. So here we are rewarding.
As a rule I have never been a fan of rewarding for things they should do anyway (be kind to one another, listen and obey when mommy and daddy ask you to do something, etc) but our oldest girl is asserting her independence and it seems some good behavior remimders need to be given and stickers are the key to her heart. Well, stickers with promises of crappy pizza, horrifying singing rodents and 1 token games for the whole family...
