Hi, my name is Sarah and I'm an expat Australian living in Seattle with my British husband and American-born English-Australian sons Adam and Joshua.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009The Adam Terror Alert System
I am at my wit’s end with the boys lately so I have decided to take a leaf out of my friend Tiburon’s discipline notebook and create the Adam Terror Alert System. This is attached to my fridge:
We start the day on terror level green and with each instance of misbehaviour, he loses a card and the punishments increase.
Green = good boy
White = warning
Yellow = 5 minute timeout
Orange = 10 minute timeout
Red = 30 minute timeout
Black (well, navy blue because I couldn’t find my black cardstock!) = you go to your room for the rest of the day with breaks only for meals and to go potty.
We’ll see how this goes!
3 Responses to “The Adam Terror Alert System”
Comment from Amy
Time June 10, 2009 at 9:40 am
Someone in my knitting group in Redmond was commenting on this game thing her husband brought home. They move forward or backward and she said it only took a warning that this is the kind of behavior that will move you back and her kid immediately stopped.
Here’s the link she provided: http://www.amazon.com/Chore-Board-Helping-Around-House-Game/dp/0811863980/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244144531&sr=8-1
She said they didn’t use chores, but rather behaviors they wanted to address.
Just an idea if this current one doesn’t work as well as hoped!
Comment from Ali @ Kent Chronicles
Time June 11, 2009 at 9:12 am
Oooohhh, great idea!
I’ll definately keep that one in mind. Like being red-carded at a soccer game ;).
Comment from allison
Time June 9, 2009 at 12:31 pm
I have been toying with that idea for a while, let me know how it works out!