When you want a kid to mow the lawn, you don't tell them, "You can do it whenever you want, but you can't play games until you do": You tell them no games and no TV until they do. Isn't that better motivation? Then they have no entertainment. There haven't been any kids outside--next door are punished and down the road aren't here--and he doesn't like to read, so he'd be screwed until he did get off his butt and mow.
Dad tried the latter with Craig. Craig didn't mow the lawn. Craig sat and watched TV. Duh. Satellite TV, fifteen channels full of cartoons, and you're telling me he's going to all of a sudden stop what he's doing because he can't play games? He wanted to play earlier, when Dad told him he couldn't play until the lawn was done, and he wasn't even trying to mow that lawn. He didn't care. You have to take the TV too. Or threaten him with something he really doesn't want. Like church. Which, by the way, because Dad got so pissed off, he's attending tomorrow. 9_9 Unless Mom and Dad go out early in the morning (they tend to on Sundays anyway), Craig's going. He's not happy about it.
We're going to a concert in ten minutes (minus Craig, he wasn't going to begin with). If Dad's sour mood is in that car, I'm going to shoot him. I'm tired from staying up so late, and haven't napped like I was going to, and if those tickets hadn't cost Mom so much money, I wouldn't bother going.
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