[CanadianChick]

Smitty, I absolutely LOVE the push-up idea. Now THAT'S innovative thinking!!!

[Braid]

Originally Posted by smitty2622

We’ve been going through this with our daughter this year and had the same problems with the boys last year. I think it’s partially an age thing they want to test you. With all three children we had do school work anytime they were awake They did nothing but School work for about two to three weeks it was harder on us that them but it seems to work. If they ran out of school work my wife would download projects for them from the web. We also use pushups for discipline any disrespect or lies are countered with automatic pushups lies get from 50 to 200 depending on seriousness disrespectfulness not minding or not doing chores gets 50 to 100. It works well and gets the kids in shape! YOU have to stick to it my boys have done pushups at the mall and hockey games if they are disrespectful they do pushups immediately no matter where we are even at Church. My oldest boys can do 200 easy at 9 and 11 my daughter at 8 can do 100 the younger boys 4 and 5 can do about 25 but I think they will probably bypass their older brothers before they are 8. Hope this helps some….

What an absolutely great idea, this is going into my memory bank for when I have children, I'll also share it with my parents.