Lovey has been dying to join the band at school. She asked at least 57 times. She promised she'd be rseponsible and do a good job practicing. A couple of days she came straight int eh door from schoola nd buckled right down to work on her pieces without being told. She was desperate to join!
As you can see on the form below, violin wasn't one of the instruments and there was no way we were going to beg, plead, cajole, lecture her into practicing TWO instruments every day. We didn't let her join when the form came home originally. We already have a hard time getting her to do what she needs to now and it sometimes takes her 20 minutes sitting in front of the case, just to open it and get the violin out! Hobbies shouldn't be this much work for US!
A friend who did join mentioned last week that another boy in the band was playing violin. Lovey revived her "join the band" campaign instantly. I still wasn't keen on the idea as it will mean more songs to practice and it's already taking her an hour to get through her pieces each night now.
I told her that she had to pay half the fees if she wanted to prove how serious she is about joining and practicing. She has the opportunity to earn the money back by doing as she promised, practicing daily without Herculean efforts on our part five times a week. (she has a lesson one day and doesn't practice then, and well, Murray can wrangle her the other day. I just broker the deals) That dampened her enthusiasm a bit. Her desire was no longer so strong. $25 represents most of the savings she had built up.
Today I told her she had to decide by Monday and she mentioned her reluctance to part with her cash. I explained that she either really wanted to do band and would do a good job and get her money back - OR - she wasn't actually that interested and wasn't going to do the work she promised and forfeit the $25 so which was it. She had her money on the counter a few hours later.
Any bets on the status of her refund 5 weeks hence???
As you can see on the form below, violin wasn't one of the instruments and there was no way we were going to beg, plead, cajole, lecture her into practicing TWO instruments every day. We didn't let her join when the form came home originally. We already have a hard time getting her to do what she needs to now and it sometimes takes her 20 minutes sitting in front of the case, just to open it and get the violin out! Hobbies shouldn't be this much work for US!
A friend who did join mentioned last week that another boy in the band was playing violin. Lovey revived her "join the band" campaign instantly. I still wasn't keen on the idea as it will mean more songs to practice and it's already taking her an hour to get through her pieces each night now.
I told her that she had to pay half the fees if she wanted to prove how serious she is about joining and practicing. She has the opportunity to earn the money back by doing as she promised, practicing daily without Herculean efforts on our part five times a week. (she has a lesson one day and doesn't practice then, and well, Murray can wrangle her the other day. I just broker the deals) That dampened her enthusiasm a bit. Her desire was no longer so strong. $25 represents most of the savings she had built up.
Today I told her she had to decide by Monday and she mentioned her reluctance to part with her cash. I explained that she either really wanted to do band and would do a good job and get her money back - OR - she wasn't actually that interested and wasn't going to do the work she promised and forfeit the $25 so which was it. She had her money on the counter a few hours later.
Any bets on the status of her refund 5 weeks hence???
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