"Strong-willed" is a mild term to describe my oldest daughter. I was worried in the months leading up to kindergarten, because we really had a laid back approach to our mornings. How on Earth I was going to get her to school before 9:00 was a mystery to me.
One of the books on the pre-kindergarten reading list was Joseph Slate's Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten. My daughter loved it so much that we got our hands on the whole series, and my daughter was mesmerized by the awards given out at the end of Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the Last Day of Kindergarten. One such award is the "perfect attendance" certificate. Whenever my daughter complained about going to school or getting ready in the morning, I reminded her that she wouldn't be able to get the certificate if she missed school. While she still didn't get the certificate because she had more than six tardies (mainly due to traffic), the line worked to get her out of the house in a timely manner.
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