Fingers crossed: he's actually doing something productive

[TerryJ2]

difficult child is so bored that I am paying him $5 per grocery bag of junk to sort through bills, magazine articles, photos and other assorted stuff. He's already got a bag full of recycling.
The irony of it is, if he didn't keep me hopping all the time, I would be able to file these things immediately. It's because of him that it's all piled up!
Maybe my office will be cleaned after all ...

 

[gcvmom]

Great idea! I hope he sorts things properly and you don't lose anything important to the recycle bag!

 

[TerryJ2]

He's reading everything outloud to me, including loooonng numbers that are now meaningless ... he doesn't know the meaning of speed reading or eyeballing.

 

[gcvmom]

Lol!

 

[Fran]

Incentives are a good thing.

 

[whatamess]

sweet!

 

[Wiped Out]

Nice!

 

[barneysmom]

Good idea. I used to pay my older son to read. Sounds awful I know. But he's a good reader now.

 

[Andy]

How creative! Good thinking Terry!

Do you have a recycling center that he can crush aluminum cans and take in for cash? We let our difficult child have whatever money he makes crushing the cans.

 

[susiestar]

Awesome!! thank you gets paid to scrub the fronts of our cabinets and appliances in the kitchen and bathrooms when he wants to buy things. Once I showed him to run his hand across the door to feel if it was still dirty he has done an awesome job!

 

[LittleDudesMom]

Finding their carrots is the best!!!!!

 

[TerryJ2]

Well, he was a brat today. He even refused to go to the psychiatrist. We tried the speaker phone for a conf call and he refused to pick up.
Sigh.
We changed his medications a bit but not much.
I suspect he'll be better tomorrow. His day starts earlier and I have a list of chores for him. Plus, I have cash in my purse, LOL!
The psychiatrist did agree that with-these kids, sometimes what works one day won't work the next day.
So my plan is to see if I can get him to cooperate every other day. Goofy, but what the heck. My office still has a ways to go ...