Silver Stars

You can receive a silver super star award for completing any of the following tasks.
Children eat green vegetables every day for 14 days.
Children are bathed before bed every day for a month.
Pull out and put back one closet and deliver cast offs to charitable organization.
Choose the diet Slurpee.
Put away two baskets of laundry.
Organize toy bins.
Give handmade present to any of the children’s teachers.
Make full breakfast with fruit and choice of beverage.
Walk up all the stairs and back down 20 times.
Write a novel.

You must remove one silver super star after any of these transgressions:
Arrive late for violin class.
Drink the children’s chocolate milk.
Smoke a cigarette.
Use a baby wipe to clean the kitchen.
Allow a phone conversation to interrupt math.
Leave completed projects lying about for more than 3 days.
Miss the deadline for photos with mall Santa or mall Easter bunny.
Swear in church.
Unleash sarcastic backchat on husband in presence of children, harpy.
Grieve over something stupid and insignificant and irrelevant to your life.

It’s never happened that Ronnie has had to resort to #10 on the DO list, to fill a star chart. And as for #10 on the DON’T chart, isn’t it there as more of a warning than a threat of censure? For what witless ass would do something silly like that, and waste good child-rearing time on cheap regret.