This in itself is maddening enough. But just to push me over the edge, the kids can NEVER and I mean NEVER find their shoes when we need them! I give them heads up to put their shoes on it's nearly time to leave. I give them ideas of where to look for their shoes. I lovingly suggest that if they put their shoes in their cubbies, they would in fact always know where their shoes where.
So I took action.
After they were all snuggled in their beds I was picking up -trust me if you would like to see a picked up house, visit between the hours of midnight and 6 AM, any other time all bets are off, we live here.- I kept finding shoes and shoes and shoes. Instead of putting them IN the cubbies. I put them on top of my kitchen cupboards.
In the morning when Eric pointed them out to the girls, CJ was quick to have an explanation as to why the shoes were up there. "Kjetil was playing with them...and um..." NO. He explained that they would have to earn them back. This was a risky plan we had come up with. Since they really do feel that shoes are optional, earning them back may not be motivation.
We had folded clothes and told them to put them away, INSIDE the drawers, to get their shoes back, and that from now on shoes must be kept in the cubbies.
They earned them back. And a pair has made it back to the cupboards. Turns out the second time around, much more of an impact than the first when the kids thought maybe Mommy had just lost her marbles.
The kids may or may not be going barefoot this Friday. How about you?
2 comments:
You guys clearly need to move to Montgomery...In Emma's school handbook it states that shoes are OPTIONAL until 3rd grade and there are actually kids that dont wear shoes to school!!! :)
Bobbie
Montgomery sounds like a great place if you don't want to wear shoes. I think that CJ's credit to Kjetil is admirable. That she thinks that much of her brother.
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