Friday, February 18, 2011

Consequences

Last night Miss Emilyn insisted that she did not have any homework. Big brother Max was on it. He called her teacher Miss K. Yep. there was homework. Emilyn didn't want to get her back pack, Max picked her up, took her upstairs and got her started. He was relentless.
Miss K. texted her Bible verse so we could work on it since it's due today. Strangely, we didn't have a Bible in the house that was the same as the school uses. Really? wow
Yesterday Miss K. shared a quote she'd heard on the radio,
'I don't scream at my children, I let their consequences do that for me.'
Love it.
That said I still don't want to think about Miss Em not having her Bible verse memorized today and having to stay in at recess or some other consequence.
I'm a softy. Miss K and Max, not so much.
Max gave it his best shot. Em can only blame herself or our versions of the Bible.

2 comments:

Emily said...

I believe the exact quote was, "I let the consequences scream so I don't have to."

And like you, I love it.

And it works great in the classroom. Especially when little princesses don't know their memory verse because her Granny Nanny didn't have the right kind of Bible. :-)

Janice said...

Way to go Max - maybe he could work with my Em? :) We've always been a fan of natural consequences, it gets so much more done than we ever could!