MTU

This idea is credited to my brilliant husband who gets tired of me getting tired of monitoring the computer/TV/Gameboy/DS/cell phone/general electronic time for our children.  He typed it up and made several copies to be handed out and posted in appropriate locations.

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Before you ask for electronics time

• Is your bed made?
• Is your room picked up?
• Is the toy room clean?
• Is the basement clean?
• Is the school room clean?
• Are your chores (dishes or animal) done?
• Is the lawn mowed? [Could be replaced with  -  Is the sidewalk shoveled? – in winter months]
• Are the trees weeded?
• Is the garden watered?
• Is the garden weeded?
• If the answer to any of these is NO, then don’t ask until completed!

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Now, the list didn’t completely solve the problem, but it sure helped.  Until I forgot about it, and the kids forgot about it.  But, I found the list last night!  So, up it goes … right where the computer should be. 

Except the computer is hidden right now.  Cuz, that’s how I deal with it – my dislike of regulating and keeping track of computer time. 

Now the kids know how to get the computer back; they better work hard tomorrow.  I might just forget where I’ve hidden the computer … just like my hubby has forgotten (for real!) where he hid the Wii.  No, I’m not praying to St. Anthony for help in finding that lost item!