Incentive is EVeRyTHiNG!

It's amazing how 2 different people can say and think the same thing but the result is much different. When I ask Emma if she has cleaned her room she says yes because there is a path through the clutter. In order to vacuum her carpet I piled everything from her floor on to her bed.

She almost looks proud of this pile. :)

Our agreement: Emma could not sleep on her bed until all of it was put away or thrown away. I was sure she'd have at least one night on the floor. Truly she amazed me...it was all cleaned (not even stuck under the bed this time) before dinnertime. Incentives really do work.

Now for the rest of the story...
her room is a mess again.