Having received various electronic games for Christmas, and with Christmas vacation ending yesterday, the Wife decided to lay down the rules for the new year regarding those games. So last night, she explained that during the school week, they will not be allowed to play the Wii or their Mobigo and DS. Further, they will have to earn play time on them by helping out with chores around the house. Another rule is that leaving the games lying around the house will result in them losing the game for some period of time.
Remarkably, there was no pushback about these rules. I was pleased, if not a little surprised.
But this morning, the boy fired his first salvo.
He wanted to play his DS after school up in his room; that way it wouldn’t be left lying around. I reminded him about the rules we had discussed the night before.
That quieted him for the moment; but I expect he’ll have another plan of attack when he comes home from school tonight.