Fire Me Please!

October 2002

Like most little boys, Tyler hates to clean his room. Begging and pleading use to work, bribery use to work too. Finally I sat down with him one day and explained to him that this was his responsibility, that it was his job. I went on to explain that if this were a real job and he didn’t accept responsibility and do what was expected of him that he could be fired. He said he understood and began cleaning his room. About 10 minutes later he came to me and asked “Mom, can you fire me?, I don’t want to clean my room anymore!”