Coke

The youngest daughter drinks very few soft drinks.  The times that she has an option to get a carbonated drink Coke is not one of her choices.  There is no need to pump a kid full of sugar and caffeine in the same drink.

I'm not going to say that she has never had a Coke, but I feel that we could count the times on one hand (not counting the sips she steals from her mom's drink).

So when we challenged her to get through a full week of school without taking a warning (mostly for talking) the reward became a Coke.

Many weeks she would go to school Friday morning declaring that she would have her Coke after school but then come home with the look that says, "no Coke today".

So you can imagine how quickly she jumped off of the bus last Friday after taking no warnings for the week!

As she drank the last of the bottle she told us we should buy some more for next week.   That's when we broke the news to her that we just expected this good behavior to continue and she would not be getting any more Coke's.

I'm not sure that's going to get us very far with this kid.