I have learned the secret to 2 year olds!

Bribing!!! It works like a charm!

Nate goes to gymnastics on Tuesday nights and has since he was 18 months old. He has started really having a hard time with it. It is in a really big gym and there are other (older kid) classes going on at the same time. So, there is so much going on around him he has a hard time listening to Ms Kelsey and following directions. It literally wears me out to take him.

We had talked about pulling him out but he does have fun while he is there and I really think that the physical activity is good for him. Today I told him that we were going to gymnastics and that if he had his listening ears on we would go to McDonalds afterwards. (I know, bad mommy to bribe with fast food!) It worked like a charm. Nate would sit and listen and did everything that Ms Kelsey asked him to do. If he started to act silly I would ask him where his listening ears were and he would say "oh, yeah mommy. My listening ears are on. Go to McDonalds" Isn't that great?

We made it through gymnastics with no fits, and mommy was not exhausted. Then we cancelled out the physical activity with fast food!