Braden's chore today: Vacuum the house
Time elapsed for the first two-thirds: Two and a half hours
Estimated time wasted talking, giving me progress updates, sitting on the floor, measuring the barstools with his hands, and playing with the vacuum pieces: One hour
Time elapsed for the last third: Thirty minutes
Lesson learned by Mom: If Braden drags his feet getting his jobs done, all you have to do is say, "I'm setting a timer for thirty minutes. If the rest of your chore isn't done by the time it beeps, you'll be grounded from the Wii tomorrow."
You people should've seen him move!
8 comments:
Will you ground me from the wii tomorrow if I don't get my stuff done? I have been the biggest procrastinator today. When I first saw the title of your post I thought for sure you had peeked in my windows!
Hey - and who's idea was it to set the timer???
It's almost like I've been there before...I seem to remember the timer threat worked pretty well for me too...though I don't think I was threatened with being grounded from the Wii - the threat was usually that I'd have to call my dad and tell him that I was messing around.
So funny! Boys are all the same. That threat has lost it's charm at our house but calling dad to tell him your messing around just might work! Wha-ha-ha!
What a wonderful idea!! My boys are obsessed with computer games, playstation games, leapster games-you name it games! I think if they lost that for a day their life might be over (and mine too)!! Thanks for the great idea.
Nothing like a motivating factor to get someone moving!! Too bad we can't ground ourselves from things...I bet we would be quicker too!
Oh....my kids do the same thing!!! Ours is the dishwasher, though. Kaylee's pretty good, but the boys take about 45 minutes to empty the dishwasher. Ugh!
Wow! maybe that is a good plan for Scott. No hanging out until your homework is done. I love the strategy!!
I must also extol the high virtues of the timer strategy. I usually implement it when it's taking a particularly long time for the kids to eat their food. "Anything that's not eaten when this timer goes off is getting thrown away!" Food that was largely ignored suddenly becomes very appealing...
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