Sunday, May 16, 2010
Flooded...and will be charged for it... ugh!
Me and 6 kids, packed up ourselves, and went on the ward campout. It was way more work than I expected. I was completely exhausted. When I came home from the campout. I found a note on the door. It was from my neighbor behind me, who said he woke up to a flooded back yard. He said he quickly discovered the water was comming from our yard. A hose was left in the pool, running. Camden came home early from school on friday to HELP me pack. He wasn't alot of help, but kept Jaren busy while I got some work done. They were outside, and I guess he assumed the pool looked a little low, so he added some water. This was about noon on Friday. The water was left on until 9 or 10 on Saturday. That is almost 20 hours. It usually takes our pool 3 hours to top off. So you can imagine how much water was wasted. Now, I know this was a simple mistake. However the worst part of it, is we don't have a well. We have to Pay for each gallon of water we use. IT is NOT cheap. My water bill will probably be over $600 dollars next month, due to this tiny little mistake. David is furious...(He is in Idaho for Alden's wedding) SO I am trying to decide how to punish him. David thinks he should pay the diffrence on the water bill. Well that could be $3-400 dollars. That would take a 6 year old nearly 6 years to earn that much. I'm not sure what to do. If you have any suggestions on how to fairly discipline this little guy. Please leave a post.
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Holy COW that's a hard one! I'd probably make him work it off, but not the exact amount of the overage. Wish I knew an easier answer for you!
ReplyDeletemaybe you can make him sell lemonaide for the rest of his life? Really though, you could have him do extra chores for a while. It's hard cause I'm sure he didn't do it on purpose, but there are consequences for mistakes too.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, Amy! That's a lot of money! It's frustrating when those kinds of accidents happen. Love you!
ReplyDeleteSo we got the bill, and it was not quite as bad as I was thinking. It was about 100 dollars more than usual. I did end up doubling his chores, for the summer. When I told him what we were going to do...He cried and cried, that he would be doing chores all summer long, and no time for play. I explained it would only take him an extra 15 minutes a day, and then he laughed, and said oh...I can do that. and he has been doing great. Thank goodness for good kids, they make parenting do--able.
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