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The punishment is the offer of 30 free hours of baby-sitting.
SOUTHLAKE, Texas — A Texas teenager who broke curfew is headed for a reluctant adventure in baby-sitting.
Robert Rausch placed an advertisement offering his daughter's free baby-sitting services in the community newspaper in Southlake, a wealthy suburb of Dallas-Fort Worth that is home to business leaders and professional athletes.
Now that's downright genius. Wish I had thought of that when my oldest was coming up. Any kind of community service is better punishment than grounding or taking away toys.
What a genius.
Baby sitting
Mowing cemeteries
Emptying trash in public buildings
Pick up trash in parks or along roadsides
Work in a soup kitchen or food bank
Read to kids at the library
I'd rather not use charity work as a punishment, NE, because I don't want them to associate doing for others as a bad thing. But yeah...mowing, trash, chores in general...way to go, dad!
The dad took out an ad in the local paper of a wealthy community. I doubt it's really "charity". While I think the sentiment has some merit. I think 30 hours of babysitting for strangers is over the top for a curfew violation.
I'd rather not use charity work as a punishment, NE, because I don't want them to associate doing for others as a bad thing. But yeah...mowing, trash, chores in general...way to go, dad!
Most teens or pre-teens have no idea what charity work is. This is a good way to introduce them to it. Kids that age are smart enough to understand that it may be their punishment, but also understand the good that they are doing as well.
The punishment is the offer of 30 free hours of baby-sitting.
SOUTHLAKE, Texas — A Texas teenager who broke curfew is headed for a reluctant adventure in baby-sitting.
Robert Rausch placed an advertisement offering his daughter's free baby-sitting services in the community newspaper in Southlake, a wealthy suburb of Dallas-Fort Worth that is home to business leaders and professional athletes.
Most teens or pre-teens have no idea what charity work is. This is a good way to introduce them to it. Kids that age are smart enough to understand that it may be their punishment, but also understand the good that they are doing as well.
"The good they are doing as well"? You mean those poor business leaders and professional atheletes who might never get to go out without their kids unless free babysitting is available?
"The good they are doing as well"? You mean those poor business leaders and professional atheletes who might never get to go out without their kids unless free babysitting is available?
Must be you've never ventured into a community that doesn't have it all. It isnt' just the wealthy that read newpapers.
I think the guy is on to something.
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I'd prefer a babysitter who WANTED to babysit my children!
