Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Welcome to The New Coffee Room. We hope you enjoy your visit.


You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.


Join our community!


If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
Not a proud parenting moment; but I bribed my 7-year-old with Pop Tart
Topic Started: Jul 21 2008, 11:56 AM (119 Views)
RosemaryTwo
Member Avatar
HOLY CARP!!!
I work from home.

I am crazy busy today.

My two sons are home with me, and they were wasting time, rolling around on the family room floor.

I said if the younger one would read to the older one, I'd give them both a Pop Tart (Kirkland brand from Coctco -- organic -- no expiration date -- would work well on the moon).

It worked.

Sad, but it worked. They're in there reading, to get a lousy tart.

:sombrero:
"Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Luke's Dad
Member Avatar
Emperor Pengin
Sometimes you just gotta do what works. Parenting is alot like being a Mafia Don.
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Red Rice
HOLY CARP!!!
RosemaryTwo
Jul 21 2008, 11:56 AM
They're in there reading, to get a lousy tart.


I've done much worse for a lousy tart. :P
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

- Cecil Lewis
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Luke's Dad
Member Avatar
Emperor Pengin
Red Rice
Jul 21 2008, 04:02 PM
RosemaryTwo
Jul 21 2008, 11:56 AM
They're in there reading, to get a lousy tart.


I've done much worse for a lousy tart. :P

:lol:
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
RosemaryTwo
Member Avatar
HOLY CARP!!!
Yeah, as a new parent I never would have approved of these methods (reading is good for its own sake, no reward should be offered, blah blah blah).



"Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
RosemaryTwo
Member Avatar
HOLY CARP!!!
Red Rice
Jul 21 2008, 12:02 PM
RosemaryTwo
Jul 21 2008, 11:56 AM
They're in there reading, to get a lousy tart.


I've done much worse for a lousy tart. :P

:lol:

I bought a big box of tarts, so I should be able to squeeze a few books out of the man yet.

This is what happens when you don't let them watch TV. :wink:
"Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Frank_W
Member Avatar
Resident Misanthrope
I've done worse things for more paltry rewards... :lol2:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
« Previous Topic · The New Coffee Room · Next Topic »
Add Reply