Originally Posted by littlemissmuffet:
Little drives me more insane than knowing a child's physical activities are being taken away as consequences... so I am ALL FOR physical activity (and chores even) being used as a disiplinary/redirection method!
Me too! My brother was a pain in the neck in school. Not a week went by in school that I didn't look out from my classroom window to see my brother doing some sort of physical labor or activity as a consequence to something he had done... well into junior high. (picking up trash, setting cones out for P.E...etc)
We joked that he was going to get a garbage can with his name on it.
At home, he mowed lawns, shoveled snow, scraped ice.... when we ran out of grass to mow, he was sent to the neighbor's to mow their yard.
He also built quite a few fences in his childhood. We had an awesome fence in a few yards because otherwise, he was too hard to handle unless he had a project.