A Quarter Bribe for an On Time Ride.
There’s a new ranger in town.
She rode in with a no-funny-business attitude and a sleeve-full of quarters.
I’m taking back my children’s rooms. I’m taking back 15 whole minutes of our morning rush out the door.
How you say?
Yes, for the cost of a gallon of gas 50 years ago, I am going to gain control over my mornings.
Here’s the deal. I give them .25 cents if they make their beds and straighten their room.
They can earn another silver George Washington if they are dressed (including shoes — won’t press for socks), have book bag on shoulder and are ready to head out the door at 7:50 a.m.
A vast improvement over the 8:02 a.m, 8:05 a.m. we’ve drifted down to (or is it up to) lately.
Here’s the best part about the Quarter Bribe for an On Time Ride game,
All manner of ugly talk and bodily functions to-gross-out-other-captives-of-enclosed-car are reasons for mom deciding to take a quarter earned that morning — back.
Woo. I already feel more powerful.
It works. I’ve done this before.
I’m so ready for a game of Quarters.
In more ways than one.
How do you bribe your children? Come on. I know you do.
