My kiddos have gotten rather sassy these past few months. It has gotten out of control and I had to do some creative thinking to get them back on track. Sending them to their rooms wasn’t enough and I needed them to have hands on consequences that would encourage them to think before sassing.
Armed with a box of Pampers baby wipes and dirty grout lines throughout my kitchen, I decided I would assign 5 lives for every sassy comment made. Man o man, do my kitchen floors look great! While this is working great for our home, it’s not the punishment that works, it’s the consistency of discipling the unwanted behavior.
Thanks to Love and Logic, I do hope my kids mess up a lot at home… not just because I want my grout lines to stay bright white, but because I would rather correct them in love then the world handing them extreme consequences later in life.
I have also found that they leave less clothes in the floor when you deduct minutes off of their bedtime for it. 5 minutes for every item left on the floor!
