1/29/18 FHE Lesson on Cleaning Up

     Today was a pretty normal Monday. I went to my usual Monday meeting with Sal and Ange. The kids all went to school. One fun spot was when Sharon and Alex came to visit. Peter gets pretty lonely and he LOVES playing with Alex.
     During our weekly Family Council we asked the kids if there were any issues that they wanted us to go over as part of a Family Home Evening Lesson. David said that we should talk about doing a better job of tiddying up. Multiple other children chimed in agreeing that this is something that we need to work on. Heidi and I decided that this sounded like a good topic. Then, on Monday afternoon we started to be concerned about how we were going to make this into an uplifting and productive meeting. Heidi and I met together and discussed ideas. Then she had to go be a Mom and put out homework fires with the kids. After she left I remembered one of my business books from MBA school and felt like I should dust it off and review some of the ideas it has. The book is called "Influencer: The Power to Change Anything". It's a little pretentious sounding but it was one of my favorites back in school. The basic idea is that we should look beyond simple rewards and punishments when we are trying to change entrenched behavior.

The kids had some great ideas. FHE went better than expected. Hopefully we'll be able to put some of these ideas into practice and begin having a cleaner home.