I hear what you ladies are saying. I really do, but...
my last threat was yesterday- this is how it went down. I have 3 kids. 2 sick with a tummy bug and 1 didn't want to go to school, he's just started grade school and has no friends yet, hubby had important meeting with govt people and was running out of time. ds1 argued for 20mins before getting in the car to go to school, wouldn't get out of the car. came home and argued another 20mins then I told him go to school before I smack you.
the whole time Im cleaning the other 2kids, had very little sleep for 2nights and if we let him stay him it sets us up later to never get any of them to go- "because I don't want to"
we got told not to have ds1 late to school again. this 1st 6 weeks is very important and they're learning stuff that is hard and a lot if work ( not in au)
short of the threat, what else could we do?
hubby was called by govt people asking where he was during this.