"Isaac, you should have 2 more pages in your homework packet. Go grab it and finish."
"Isaac, you have something like 5 pages you haven't finished this week."
"I know, I'm sorry." "Get to work."
"Isaac, it says to circle the pronoun. Banana is not a pronoun." - Isaac commences crying.
"Isaac, if you start crying over a pronoun again I'm not doing football tonite."
He heads to his room to do some more.
"Isaac, once again, circle the pronoun in the second sentence. Don't do anything to the first sentence. These are mostly wrong." - more tears.
"O.k., no football."
They tied the Redskins at 24 a piece.
"Follow through." (Parenting 101, Common Sense Press, 1 b.c., page 1, line 1)
