"Some may say this sounds arbitrary and punitive... why punish a child for looking at a book, even during breakfast time? Isn't this type of flexibility a benefit of homeschooling? If there is truly a need to stay on schedule, might a parent advise, "No books until after breakfast. That's a house rule. If you choose to break the rule, I will mark that on the calendar. 5 broken house rules in a month will indicate you have chosen to no longer homeschool, but rather have chosen to return to school."
I guess there is a misunderstanding in there. That is his little sister who said that she cannot truly stand what is going on and speak about homeschool. By the way, we tried reward with DS (Barkley). It did work of one month or so when he was 7 but quickly he told us something like he cannot be bought ....
