We went to Ikea for dinner tonight. (This time, we didn’t go just to get the monkeys to behave, but knowing that I wanted to go check some stuff out gave me a great way to keep those guys in line all day. A nice byproduct.)
After dinner, we went downstairs to get ice cream. We [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ikea’
Old enough to learn how to eat an ice cream cone
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged Ikea, learning, managing, parenting on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Ikea incentive
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged Ikea, incentives, negotiation, parenting on June 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’m in a sophisticated phase of parenting called bargaining, negotiating and bribery.
I’m not proud, but I’ll do what it takes to ensure that the monkeys not only know that they shouldn’t pull their teacher’s hair in school but that they don’t actually do it.
A couple of weeks ago there was a lot of misbehaving at school. In [...]
