Oh, Dearest Mother, Sweetest Virgin of Altagracia, our Patroness. You are our Advocate and to you we recommend our needs. You are our Teacher and like disciples we come to learn from the example of your holy life. You are our Mother, and like children, we come to offer you all of the love of our hearts. Receive, dearest Mother, our offerings and listen attentively to our supplications. Amen.



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Babs
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Posted: June 22 2009 at 8:35pm | IP Logged Quote Babs
Jennifer,

             
I just thought my older children needed not to be focusing on competing, but rather on offering.


As the mom of all boys this really made me chuckle. I am definitely going to incorporate this somehow, need to think more about personalities in regard to flowers, sacrifice beads. Too funny.

Thanks for the updated book reviews. I already have the Santorum and Bennet books so that was very good news.

Thanks for sharing your experience, you have probably saved me some October curriculum changes.

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Posted: June 30 2009 at 10:26pm | IP Logged Quote havnababy
Jennifer,

I'd love to see what you've come up with so far. I've been working on the same project this summer and just by chance a friend sent me to your post.

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amyable wrote:
What we are doing is filling a small jar with nickles and pennies (I didn't have enough nickles ) and for every infraction money is taken away. *IF* there is any left at the end of the week we use it for a family treat - a dessert, a Redbox movie and popcorn, etc.

This is only for the older three. If I included my 3.5 year old, we would be out of money before the first day's lunch.

I'm not too thrilled with the whole punishment/reward aspect of what we're doing, but nothing else seems to reach my kids right now.


I *like* your system. I'd heard of this sort of backward reward system before, and we even tried it for each child, but never how the whole FAMILY could be rewarded if the FAMILY all treats each other with respect and kindness all week. It's good to make everyone responsible for their behavior.

How is it working, Amy?

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