Our school has a trip to the rec center for those who turn in three reading logs from the summer, which motivates DD9, and they also can turn each log in to the little store for a free ice cream bar, so that keeps her going all summer. The library has gone to a points system where each reading log gets a "dollar" that can be used to "buy" prizes, and she makes out pretty good on the worthless prizes there, too.

Our problem is that we stink at filling out reading logs -- luckily, neither the school nor the library care if we fudge them and only put the minimal scribble of what book it was, without filling in times and all that garbage. They know she's reading tons.

DD's new teacher this year had a form to fill out to tell her about the students, and one of the questions asked about your homework routine. I wrote, "Err... try and get it done at bedtime if she remembered to bring it home?" laugh