Sunday, August 10, 2008

Sunday trick.

I owe this one to Dori Leder, I think, who enlightened me with a fabulous method of helping your kids to be good in church. Alisa has been rather squirrley lately, always trying to get out of the Sacrament meeting and whining, etc. I remembered this trick and we tried it out this week. Alisa was an absolute peach!

Here's what we did: I told Alisa the night before that if she was a good girl in church (meaning: being a happy girl, being nice to Ben and us, no crying, no sneaking out of the room, no whining, etc), then she would get three scoops of ice cream after church was done. If she misbehaved, she would lose a scoop (but she would get at least one scoop no matter what with encouragement to do better next week). She even helped us pick out the ice cream on Saturday night. I reminded her before church about our deal and off we went. It worked like a charm!