Are You Serious?

I must start by saying that I am extremely disappointed. I begged for comments in my last post and I got 2... 2 people! Thank you to the two of you that made some recommendations to us in our time of need. Where was everyone else? You could have put something like, 'I have no idea', or 'I've never had my carpets cleaned before so I'm clueless', anything like that would have worked, really it would have. Or even, 'I like being dirty and I like gross carpets so I wouldn't think of cleaning them'. That would have worked too.

Anyway, moving on...


I wanted to thank Ryan and Ashley for this idea. We hope we understood how you do it exactly, so here it goes
(slightly modified):

1. Adelaide picked 15 of her favorite rocks
2. She picked her favorite color and painted them beautifully
3. I picked two rocks and painted them brown
(hopefully she doesn't need more than that)
4. She has her very own "good girl" jar
5. Every time she does something good, sweet, wonderful, etc.,
she gets to put a "good rock" in the jar
6. When she accumulates 15 rocks, she gets a treat or prize for her efforts
7. However, if she is naughty, she gets a brown rock
8. She cannot accumulate any more "good rocks" until she resolves this naughty rock
9. She does this by apologizing, being sweet, and so on
10. Then she can start accumulating "good rocks" again

We feel this can help in many areas. Recognizing good deeds from naughty ones, conflict resolution, counting, getting something only when you work for it, and probably more things I can't even think of.

Anyway, we hope this works. We as parents are in the habit of giving her things just cause she asks for it, so I think this will help us out as well. Sometimes we have a hard time sticking to things, so lets see how this works out.