Commencing operation Aidens In-Home Bootcamp, curtesy of the best four member parent team known to man, Carl-i-mean Carol Mae, Brent the Hammer, Vrate There is No Daddy Only Zuul Gill, and yours truly, The Dreadheaded Stepmom. After much misbehaving and just plain awfulness to all of his rents, we decided to put him to work with Dad and Evil Stepmom for a week. Today he has done dishes, written a much overdue apology/appreciation letter to his amazing mother, changed poopy diapers, and (my favorite) went to work with Dad on his roof, cleaning up shingles. He cleared a tarp on his own in a few hours. Came home, walked in the door and said I need to rest. Music to my ears, as the point of his boot camp week is to teach him how hard we all work, instill some empathy, work ethic, and general skill improvement. Also an attitude adjustment. So not only will he be working on something throughout the entire day, participating in the things parents have to do all the time, he will be grounded from tv, guitar (as much as we all hate that, its a privilege that has been abused), playing outside, video games and pretty much anything that isnt productive or working off his meanness. He did so good for day one that he is allowed to finish our movie with us (a HUGE point all of us parents drill into the kids is that play is earned by work. We all work so we can do fun things later and have to earn our recreation. ). After that its putting dishes away, homework and bed. Maybe Ill feed him even. Lol. Ps- Hell be picking up shingles again tomorrow. Sgt. Evil Stepmom reporting for duty.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 22:05:45 +0000
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