I Heart Bribery
I think bribery is a pretty affective way to deal with many situations. I don’t care who you are, we’ve all bribed someone at some point in our lives.
My little one has been learning how to swim. This week was week 3. Last week didn’t go too well. He cried, screamed and shook his way through as much of the lesson as we could put him through before I scooped him up in a big hug and took him home. I was concerned about how todays lesson would go. I started talking to A early on in the morning, trying to hype him up about the whole thing. He kept responding with “nah, I go to swimming lessons tomorrow” so I wasn’t going to get my hopes up. I did, however, say that if he gave swimming lessons a good go today that I would get him a new toy boat.
Little A is very excited about boats. He’s like a junkie for them. Boats and Hot Wheels cars. Needless to say, the promise of a new boat was all that was needed. He jumped into the water with his teacher and had a blast. He even called out “look mummy, I’m not even crying today”. He was so proud. Every time he learnt a new trick he’d turn around and give me the double thumbs up. I coulda cried.
And that is why I heart bribery.
Aurelius said,
October 31, 2007 at 1:17 am
My own boat-loving creature wanted to watch Lord of the Rings on DVD Sunday night. But his parents were watching a documentary on Capt Cook. So Lucius sat down, grumpy and complaining that the doco “sucked arse”. But fifteen minutes into it, he was hooked.
Little boys and sailing boats will always go well together.
dryeyedcrab said,
November 3, 2007 at 6:15 am
:O He said “sucked arse”???? Ummmum ahhhhhhhhh.
sclozza said,
November 6, 2007 at 5:09 am
Trains were/are the bribe of choice for me.
Whenever the parents would buy me a compilation photo book of trains from a bargain bin at some bookstore, I knew I was going to be conned into doing something.