Nothing quite like bribing your children, is there? Jason has a report that’s due a week from Monday on Sam Houston & his life before he moved to Texas. If he turns it in this Monday, a week early, he’ll earn 10 extra points. He needs them, but he was moving along on the project at a snail-like pace. Until I bribed him with Spiderman (or as they call it, Spider-Man, but I like my version better.) Yes, I told him that if he was to finish all of the written portions of the project today we would go to Spiderman tonight. Zooooom! He got right to work – and if he started to lose focus all it took was a nudge & a reminder that I hadn’t ordered the tickets yet, and he got right back to work! I let him leave a little for tomorrow morning because my Dad came by to pick him up for about half an hour – they went Mother’s Day shopping. When they returned they brought me a lovely bouquet of flowers. So tomorrow morning we have to finish the bibliography and write up an oral presentation to go with the project. Then tomorrow afternoon he has to finish his diorama.
As for the movie – it was great. He really enjoyed it, I really enjoyed it. The theater was packed – it was sold out. We were in one of the huge screens too – two levels of seating, easily 1000 people in there. Jason sat through the full 2 hours of the movie – I don’t think he moved once. I’ll confess, there were a few times that I jumped. I liked the premise, the “With great powers comes great responsibilities.” Also, the fact that Peter Parker is an outsider, the brainy kid that gets picked on – but he deals with it. Jason’s been picked on more this year (I think it just starts to happen more at this age) and it’s gotten him down some days – so I felt like it was a good message. Sad at times, but that’s ok – that’s life, isn’t it? In the end, good movie and probably one that we will end up owning on DVD. Now he’s gearing up for Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones next weekend (although I’m thinking of waiting a week or two to go see it.) After that, the weekend of the 4th of July – Men in Black II!