Let's just say that Calvin is not exactly 'challenged' by school right now, and the effect of that is that he speeds through his homework a little too fast sometimes making silly errors along the way. So after seeing lots of homework come home with silly mistakes, or just plain sloppy work we decided it was time for some good old fashioned bribery. IF he could bring home PERFECT homework for 4 out of the 5 school days we would take him to IHOP for breakfast on Saturday morning. And Alayna had to get good behavior reports all week if she wanted to go along.
It took several weeks, but they finally did it, and we all went to IHOP bright and early one Saturday morning in October. They both ordered Chocolate Chocolate Chip Pancakes with Chocolate milk. That's a LOT of Chocolate!!
They LOVED them! We couldn't believe it, but they both even finished every last bite.
As I am sure you can imagine they required some outdoor play later that morning to get through the sugar high!
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