We're bound and determined that all of the Blossoms will have a good work ethic.
So, rather than giving a job to all four of the girlies in a girlie-gaggle-group, we purposely isolate those who need help in the work ethic department. We send the older two off to work on something else and assign jobs to both the Little Blossoms, thereby "isolating" them in a have-to-work situation.
~ Rather than all the Blossoms unloading the dishwasher, just the Little Blossoms do it.
~ Rather than assigning gopher type jobs (go-fer-this, go-fer-that) and errands to all of them, we sometimes utilize only the Little Blossoms.
~ Rather than having them all working at the same time, I even occasionally assign jobs to the Little Blossom when the Big Blossoms are reading or playing. (GASP!)
Oh man, I'm not gonna lie; the character issues come out. The Little Blossoms can't slide under the radar anymore.
However, I'm excited to tell you that we are seeing little glimmers of progress here and there. Steady plodding really does make good progress. So, we keep plodding like the patient animals that trod the trails of the Grand Canyon. Day by day character is formed and little changes are happening.
Dominique
