Crime and Punishment

Yesterday Tyler threw a terrible tantrum because we took the long way to the playground at our nearby park. (Nevermind that he was riding his new scooter and when we got to the playground he spent most of the time joyfully riding his scooter back and forth on a stretch of paved pathway!) As part of his punishment today I made him trace the sentence "I am sorry." (3 pages, each with 4 traceable sentences) before I let him watch any TV. The funny thing was that Tyler was excited about practicing his handwriting. He did stop about halfway through to take a rest but happily forged on when I reminded him he could watch TV when he was done.