OK... I know many may think I'm a cranky pants but...
In my state, the govt. sponsors a reading challenge over the holidays. I love it because it really keeps the reading bug alive and well fed over summer. Plus, it keeps the kids in the routine of going to the library every week (and I get to relax in the air-conditioning which is a big thing for me! Currently 36C in Perth today). Anyway, there's another component to the challenge. Kids can submit book reviews to the challenge team and if selected they get their review published online. Miss 7 wrote a fabulous book review and they published it!!!! I thought it was an excellent summer holiday activity. She had to map out her ideas, handwrite it and then type out the story and email it to the organisers, etc. And for her efforts, she won a McDonald's cheeseburger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was outraged. On the one hand, our govt is trying desperately to fight child obesity, and on the other hand it's giving out free cheeseburgers!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thankfully, my kids would rather eat mouse poo. But now the local radio station has invited me to debate the "reward" on air on MOnday morning. I know they're going to try and make me out to be an absolute cranky pants (which I sometimes am!) Anyone else got any good ideas as to why offering free McDonald's burgers is a lousy reward for a summer reading program?
Cranky and slightly hormonal... jojo
