To Wear or Not to Wear, that is the Question...

To Wear....














Or Not to Wear...











On Thursday, as RMD was getting out of our car to join her carpool to WAS - Wilderness class, she simultaneoulsy discovered and announced that she had no shoes. My first reaction was total disbelief - I think hers was as well. And then I was angry. Not even so much because of the lack of shoe thing, but more because the lack of shoe thing was a blatant display of a huge problem we are having around here lately concerning certain family members. Namely, lack of organization.

Each day I request some sort of thing to be done - packing books for co-op or Spanish class, making lunch or laying clothes out for WAS, putting things away that have been lying on the family room floor for more then a week, it doesn't matter what, but something. And more often then not, I hear "I'll do it later..." Well, as you can see, later never manages to come, the consequences (there are always consequences in this Love and Logic household) don't matter enough, and waa-laa - no shoes! So, I guess I really need to rethink my consequences because they are obviously not working. In fact, I probably need to step even further back and rethink my requests. These are things that should just be done, and without reminding or requesting, given the said offenders age. They should really be automatic, and not even concern me at all. Maybe I should go to Love and Logic class, being offered here at our library. Something needs to change, though, and I'm willing to admit it might need to start with me.

So, you're probably wondering what happened to the no-shoes kid. Well, in our current world, it turns out shoes don't really matter. I mean when you're spending your school day mud-sledding down butt-slide hill, painting your face with that mud or ashes from the fire that was started with 2 sticks, tromping through creeks on "catch-stuff" day and doing all this with your teacher who drove to school with NO SHOES ON, it just really doesn't make a difference now, does it?

(this picture was actually taken on a day WITH shoes!)