UPDATE: The genius mom who came up with this is my hero...

The original post on this consequence idea is below, but since then we have made some changes to the form we use. Amazing Husband thought mine wasn't detailed enough. So we made these changes...it's not as cute, but with all the changes I ran out of room for cuteness. I left both up here so you can use these should you want to.

I was in a store yesterday with my sweet mom and a woman helping us overheard me explaining the new consequence system to my mom. She followed us around just to hear more about it. I had to laugh.

One day I stumbled across this pin on Pinterest...

The pin doesn't link to a website, so I don't know how made it or how to give proper credit there. I thought the idea was genius. So I printed it out and showed it to Amazing Husband. He liked it too. 

Normally, our discipline includes taking away friend privileges, taking away electronics time (they only get 2 hours a day), and extra chores. Sometimes these things work and sometimes they become more work for us. Extra chores turns into me showing them how to do it which defeats the purpose of giving them the job in the first place. 

Well, it just so happened that both boys lost their electronics time because they snuck their Kindles upstairs one night and watched Netflix well into the wee-hours of the morning. And then Superman told me about it. While I appreciated his honesty, I actually knew this had been going on from time to time. It was time to address it. 

I don't want them thinking it's okay to sneak around and disobey...that if they don't get caught then it's okay to do something they know is breaking rules in our home.

We decided to remove all electronic time for 7 days. Sometimes this seems like the most painful punishment to them and sometimes it doesn't. The time flies by and they don't seem to care. So 5 days in, I remembered this pin I had seen and had to amend the punishment.

I made my own version...I have to pick out cute fonts and stuff. Plus I wanted to laminate it and use it over. This is what I came up with for us.

And it worked. Yesterday, I got three cabinets and one drawer cleaned out, I got four loads of laundry done without my help and the kitchen counters and dining table got cleaned off. Score.