Saturday, December 1, 2012

Naughty or Nice

A new thing this year is to keep track of the kids' nice-ness or naughty-ness is a Naughty or Nice Calender. I've printed out this calender:
 

And these boxes:

To represent how they can earn their presents. I kinda got this idea while talking to my sister's friend about Christmas. She said she felt that her kids have been horrible this year that all she wants to do is give them coal. (I believe they are selling cinnamon candy coal at Deseret Book or Seagull Book; I thought it was funny.) And I wanted to kind of gauge my own kids behaviour for Christmas/daily. So I came up with the calender. Each day represents a present for Christmas *we don't literally have 24 toys/gifts to give them but we can gauge how many they can earn in the overall month* the boxes represent chances, I guess, to earn presents for Christmas. If they are bad throughout the day no present will be stuck to the day. If they are good they earn the full present *full present is with ribbon and bow, it starts with the colored box, then ribbon, then bow*. If they do bad things they can still earn back the present if they do good, but if they do bad again, it is taken away. Make sense? Clear as mud?
Example: Today Christian was good for most of the day today. So he'll have at least one present come Christmas, unless he's mean the rest of the month.
Nayeli on the other hand wasn't good most of the day. If she keeps this up, no presents for her on Christmas. Not even from Santa. *Kids get only one present from Santa, why should Santa get all the glory of children's hearts*
Also another thing I've added was that the toys the kids don't earn will go to charity somewhere.

1 comment:

Ammon and Lindsey Teller said...

Sounds like a good plan! It's nice that they're both old enough to 'get it.'