At home there is a chart on the wall with the children's names on it, and when they do something particularly impressive they get a sticker, called a positive, beside their name on the chart.
When they have ten positives each they get a treat. The first time they chose their own treat - a special lunch at a local pancake restaurant. The second time I gave them a really cool easel from Ikea.
Lately Venus has been making special efforts with helping to clean up around the house among other things, so she had more positives that Mars for a while and this was causing him some unhappiness. So when he finally caught up to her I wanted their treat to be something they could use together, and something that Mars would particularly like.
I gave them one of these.
They absolutely love it. It is cheap and not particularly well built, but they really enjoy playing "table soccer", as it has come to be known. When I first gave it to them they played for about thirty minutes without a single pause.
Within five minutes Venus had rewritten the rules of the world game. When Mars scored two goals in a row she was most displeased. We got our first amendment to the rules.
"Mars, you can't score two goals in a row!"
If only someone had explained that to Germany before the World Cup.
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