When your child disobeys and refuses to do schoolwork, it can make you question your sanity. �Why am I doing this?� has crossed my mind more than once. One day, as I was reaching for the phone to call the public school to see if I could enroll my future award winner, it came to me. He needs to be held accountable. He (and his brothers) is held accountable for everything else� why not hold him accountable for not cooperating?
When it came time to �manage� my children and their school work, I thought back to my days as a manager. When someone was hired, they were given a copy of the �rules� and the consequences for not following the rules. They were asked to sign it, making it a contract of sorts. �Blink!� The light flicked on!
I came up with a list of the behaviors I thought were inappropriate. Each of my child has different �opportunities for improvement� so I made a different list for each. I then came up with a list of consequences. I wrote a contract that simply says �We, ___________________ (parents) and ________________________ (child), agree that if one of the rules of behavior are broken, they will do the following: Go to bed � hour early and complete a job from the consequence job list. �
Once my children knew there was going to be a consequence for their non-cooperation during school, it only took a few days before they realized it wasn�t worth it!