For two weeks, we have another little 8-year old boy in the house.  Adam is my son John’s nephew, my step-grandson.  (This technically makes me a grandma, with Nephew Adam 2 days older than Uncle John.)  

Adam has no learning differences.   And, Adam loves junk food.   So I have bribed him that if Adam can teach my son John to get his you-know-what into the you-know-where, I will let Adam eat cookies all day long, for one whole day.  Adam is now fully engaged in John’s #2 toileting goals.

And I am also bribing the 2 boys each morning to get through their practice of TouchMath together.  Nothing fun is going to happen until then.  (Technically, that’s less bribery and more tough love parenting.)

I also have a pending deal with Adam involving getting John to actually chew gum.

You might want to try some version of leveraged bribery.

I am using it shamelessly.

Best,

Gayle