boing!
Having been unable to put up the trampoline yesterday (rain stopped play) I was dead set on doing it today… and I did! Actually it was pretty easy once you got the knack of doing the springs (although I will point out that, being second hand, the springs may well not have been as, well, springy!) It ddin’t come with the cover bit for the springs but I found somewhere selling them fairly cheaply and ordered a few new springs at the same time (there are 2 that are overstretched and I assume that more will give up at some point so it seemed sensible to get some on stock) In the mean time she is on strict orders to bounce carefully…. I think she bounced for the entire afternoon 
I’m giving serious consideration at the moment to some sort of token system to make sure stuff gets done. I’m working on probably using tiddly winks or similar so there are different colours for different tasks then I can say that she can have her PC/watch TV once she has done so many things, including 2 or 3 different colours. I’m not autonomous so I have no qualms from that POV but I am a bit sad that I have had to resort to her "earning" these sorts of things but really, she could quite happily watch endless trash (I mean, she will watch Cebeebies for goodness sake!) and play endless trashy games (am seriously considering a very draconian Net Nanny!!!) and really, I think she needs to learn that good stuff doesn’t come "free". I don’t want a lot - the ability to walk across her bedroom without protective footwear would be nice, half an hour or so of "normals" three or four times a week would be as much as I’d expect, a bit of crafting or artwork a couple of times, a bit of music once a week, something physical most days and a voluntarily consumed piece of fruit most days….. If it works I may instigate it for Duke too…… actually, it does look a lot when I list it but really, you know, she does have all day every day!!!!
doesn’t look like a huge amount to me, not at all dissimilar to what I require
Comment by Jax — October 25, 2009 @ 9:19 pm
SB is really liking seeing her weekly charts build up, so perhaps instead of tiddlywinks a stamp chart? added advantage [blush] of being ‘evidence’
Comment by HelenHaricot — October 25, 2009 @ 10:10 pm