I will choose......

...to obey my mommy x 20=discipline. LOL

Ethan has been acting out. I know, you must be thinking...what? A six year old acting out. The middle child of five, strong willed, and acting out? What kind of mother am I. If you look at the picture, not a bad one. As a matter of fact not a bad one at all.

Today Ehtan was acting out, and yesterday and even the day before. Minor offenses, but with Ethan you can not even for one second allow the minor ones to slip by because they will escalate so fast your will be wondering what? How? When?

Today Ethan did not obey a simple instruction. We have a manner around here that this mommy does not bend on. It's called first time obedience. None of this counting to three. In my opinion I would be giving my children three chances to disobey, when in reality the expectation is to obey now, not when the mood is right and not on the count of three. So a little disobedience bought me 30 minutes of blissful peace. I have recently started sentance writing with Ethan and it's working like a charm. Apparently as an older parent some of my marbles have slipped away.

I was talking to my oldest (20 year old son) who is away at college and told him I had Ethan writing sentances to which Elliot said..."I hated when you made me do that." "Sometimes you would make me copy entire books if I goofed off during my reading time." Why don't I remember those things. I must remember to call on my older two as reminders with the younger boys.

So Ethan wrote today "I will choose to obey mommy." It took him 30 minutes and he was a delightful boy. I mean the tongue curving just outside his mouth, which he does when he is concentrating. I am begging that he get into more trouble just to see him working so hard at his sentances. His printing is improving with each line. Darn he is playing nicely with his brothers ad no signs of behavior issues today.