Surprise Can!
In the morning, if you have a son or daughter that has trouble keeping their minds on what they are suppose to accomplish, try a surprise can!
Decorate a coffee can, (use your childs name on it) and call it for example, Donna’s Surpise Can. Then explain that each morning she got downstairs, dressed and with her bed made, by 7:00 a.m. she could open her Surprise Can.
Some of the surprises you might include in that can: a stick of gum, a note saying, “I love you,” lifesavers, a quarter, a new pencil, some jelly beans, gum drops, and so forth.
You will find out that once the habit is established they will probably not need that surprise can any longer.
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