AC and the TV...part two.

So we come to our first Joy Day. Joy Day is the first thursday of the month. It's called Joy Day because that is when we check on the homework from the previous month and if  you have all your work in, then you have the Joy of follow through. If you have more than one piece of homework missing then you give up your free time the following Friday from 9-3. And if the work doesn't get done by then you come back on Monday, then Tuesday, then Wednesday, etc. until your homework is caught up.  At that point you receive the Joy of completing your commitments. So, either way, there is Joy on Joy Day.

So back to the first Joy Day. AC had 19 assignments missing. When I asked him how much TV he had watched in the past week he came up with about 30 hours. He and I had a brief, engaging dialogue about what it would take for him to be successful at Heartlife and he agreed to not watch TV until he was caught up. If he did then I would get the second TV. 

He came on Friday and worked pretty hard, but he didn't get all his assignments done. So he knew he had to come back on Monday. During the weekend he was to work on his homework and stay away from the TV.

He faced some difficulties over the weekend. The place he was going to stay didn't work out. Finally, when he got settled into his new digs he sat down to watch the new Star Wars animated TV show. Then his conscience quickened  and he did a momentary two step with his Kevin Commitment...and then settled into watching the film.

On Monday, when he came to his second serving of Joy Day, he let me know that he had watched TV over the weekend...didn't keep his commitment.

Uh-Oh....there goes the second TV from the AC house. And yet, it didn't seem right to punish his mom and brother, who  aren't in Heartlife...just in life. So we're working on putting the TV in mom's room and putting a keyed lock on her door. All this just because learning how to do your homework is harder than it looks.