Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Trying to Be Proactive

I made a list for Dominyk of what he needs to do in order to get baseball cards or a pop tonight at 6:15. I divided the time between 2:45 when he got home until 6:15 into segments of 15 minutes. I gave him my watch to wear. Each fifteen minutes that go by he is supposed to check off the item without asking me what time it is or how much longer. It has things like homework, silent reading, unloading the dishwasher, etc.

It's 3:45 and so far it has worked very well. It's 5:00 and the only thing he has left to do is occupy himself by watching TV or playing computer for an hour....

And all the sudden it isn't going so well. Everything else did.

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