[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Who said anything about makeing learning work??? But then on the other hand what is wrong with teaching a child to work? What is wrong with a child learning that work is not necessairly fun all the time? IMO, that's is a big part of whats wrong with alot of children now a days. There are to many learning techniques being used to "make learning fun". Well guess what. Life is not always fun and kids need to learn to deal with that.

My husband managed a local resturant here that was part of a chain. He was moved to one particular store because it was having problems. When he got there he figured out the problems were from the crew having a big social event there instead of working. When he put them to work they all quit saying "its not fun anymore".

I think the ones that inherit the future are the ones who have grasped the concept that life's NOT all fun and games, but does involved dealing with work that is enjoyable because of the sense of accomplishment you achieve rather then that it was fun or you made alot of money.

Becky

[RunningJoke]

Becky,

I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but some of us enjoy work and actually have fun doing it. Taking a pattern that fits for one particular work environment and applying it to all work environments and in life in general is a Part-to-Whole fallacy (someone tries to say that what is true of part of something must be also true of the whole thing together). I manage programmers where innovation and creativity is needed. Not assembly line make ze hamburger atmosphere.

Now, I'm not in the restaurant business but I have eaten in plenty of restaurants and understand the franchise model. I do know your husband is working with unskilled labor and really what I would categorize as Mc'Jobs. In that case the only will motivator is fear, and it seemed to work in his case. That style really backfires in the world of professionals and will end up destroying motivated, creative workers. But when your only tool is a hammer everything looks like a nail, eh.

Did you teach your children with the same techniques?