Win battles with “The Barrel”

Getting kids to pick up after themselves is a major challenge, especially if your kids are like mine were. I used a barrel to help make a point.

I took a big trash barrel with a water-tight lid out in the yard behind the garage. When the boys failed to pick up their stuff after being asked/told/threatened, I’d take it to “The Barrel” where they’d have to go to get it.

This was particularly bothersome to them when the items were shoes or boots and it was cold and they were in a hurry. Now, the youngest son almost 30 years old, they are still crabbing about it.