So many things change when you don’t have a home, including punishments and rewards for the children. As a family, we spent part of the evening coming up with new rewards and punishments for grades and behaviors. Our old consequence of not being able to play with friends just didn’t seem to provide the appropriate incentive anymore…imagine that.
It was decided that for a “C” in homeschool, you would lose your turn for a restaurant pick and have no screen time for 1 day; a “D” is lose the restaurant pick and 2 days no screen time; an “F” is lose your pick and 3 days no screen time. Nose picks, burps, farts, other gas expulsions not specified, and other general rudeness, like cutting in front of someone, result in 25 jumping jacks, right there and then, even in a public place. Yes, even the Dad and myself may find ourselves doing jumping jacks in the middle of a zoo or restaurant.
As a family, we also talked about food consumption, how the trip is not a week-long vacation that we can splurge all week and get back to normal afterwards. Nor can we live on french fries and chips all year, so we came up with guidelines for meals. We decided breakfast is unlimited fruit, yogurt, and eggs, but we may eat only 2 grains (only one of which can be a desert. ie doughnut, pastry.) The other guidelines are: one soda per day and one order of fries/onion rings/chips/cookie per day, in order to encourage more healthy eating.
To counter all the punishments, we needed a new reward for a 100% on a quiz or test. Together, we decided that the recipient earns a meal free of restrictions. I’m not a big fan of using food as a reward like that, but our options are pretty limited on the trip. If you have suggestions for other rewards or punishments, please share them with us! We’d love to hear them.
-The Mom (the mean one when it comes to making them eat healthy)
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