You may blame Beth for this one because she's the one that emailed me the link to this. It's the NY Times so if you want to read it (and it's worth it) you'll need to sign up. It's free and they don't spam you, just collect all your personal information for their own personal use. And marketing. But we won't get into that.
The article outlines basic husband training techniques compiled from experiences of people that train wild animals to do things they won't normally do. What an excellent marketing tool for her book because now I feel as though I must have it. And when it's sitting around the house Ben will never suspect that it's not meant for him and since he doesn't read my blog*, he likely won't find out.
* I don't understand this at all. If Ben had a blog, I'd be checking it constantly!
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I read this article with interest the other day, and since Chip reads the NYT too, it'll be interesting to see who tries it on whom first. I'm the key and wallet loser, but Chip is the "leaves dishes everywhere" champion.
Something tells me it wouldn't work very well, especially on the kids, where nagging seems essential to getting them to pick up their mess. My fear with this technique is that the kids would NEVER demostrate any positive behavior that I could reward, and the entire house would be knee deep in socks, papers, books, dressup clothes, pencils, crayons, shoes, video boxes, rubber band etc, rather than just their rooms (their rooms look exactly as described above right now, honestly)
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