No one said being a parent was easy. We have had a hard time getting Jessica to clean up after herself. Hannah I have no problems with. Jessica brought a book order home this week so I told her that she need to do choirs with out a fight the rest of the week so she could get a book. I have started reading Fly lady this week. (Thanks to my friend Melissa) So today I decide to teach the kids about the 5 minute room rescue. Hannah did a great job but Jessica well not so much. When their 5 minutes were up I told Hannah she did a great job then told Jessica she didn't do a very good job that she was just playing when she was supposed to be cleaning up and that she couldn't get a book. That broke her world apart. She threw all her pillows and blakets off her bed then stripped the sheets off. She finally got her matteress off the top buck of her bed. Jessica was struggling to get her matteress off the bed and her sweet 2 year old brother kept saying "I will help you Jess". I told him she was being a brat and didn't need any help with that. She moved her matteress to a corner on the floor and put the sheets back on and thought she was going to sleep there.
Mike had a talk with her and explainded that when he or I can't do something or if we don't have time to do something then we have to pay someone to do it for us. Mike made her pay him a dollar to put her matteress back on her bed. She was not happy about that and she still doesn't get a book. It broke Mike and I's heart as much as it did hers. Parenting is not easy but the goodtimes out weigh the bad ones.
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