After working for weeks on filling her "mermaid tear jar", Talea finally did it! Her prize she picked? A 99 cent fishing game on Hyrum's iPhone. Perfect.
Talea can be stubborn, defiant, argumentative, disrespectful and disobedient at times, so in order to curb that behavior, we've adopted Daisha's mermaid tear strategy. Every time she says "Yes, mother/father" when we ask her to do something instead of arguing or making us ask her over and over, she gets to put a mermaid tear or two in the jar. Each time she pulls her naughty behavior out, she loses tears. It's a great tactic for her!
We tried to get her to say ma'am/sir, but she insists on saying mother/father because my mom taught her that. It's cute anyway, and people laugh in surprise when they hear her say "Yes, mother" after not getting her way in a store or other public places.
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Hooray! I'm glad it's working. It still works GREAT for Tabitha too. She's not spoiled at all because she has to earn everything in her prize box with mermaid tears. And everything I buy her goes in her prize box. Perfect!
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