I have long wanted to teach children to do exercises and cold douches in the morning. I thought it was a mega challenge. At the beginning, I sat down to develop a cunning plan, motivation, interest, a list of exercises, long discussions with my wife, conversations with children. And on Friday evening, I casually bought Barney cookies in the store (they love them), in the evening he said that tomorrow we have a fun rise and whoever does exercises and pours water on them will receive cookies every morning after exercise.
Tomorrow was Saturday, which means a slightly later rise for the children. We got up, to the cheerful children’s songs (here the anchors helped) we did exercises, then we went to the bathroom, warmed up, rubbed ourselves, poured ourselves cheerfully (the water was not cold), we were surprised that it was not very cold and happy at breakfast we ate cookies.
On Sunday, we got up again a little later, did exercises in the form of competitions on the Xbox, after a hot shower and a bucket of water. And about a miracle! This morning, our children, who could barely get up in the morning, got up quite cheerfully, did exercises with us, poured themselves over, laughed and sat down to eat porridge, satisfied.
In fact, “I blinded him from what was”: I applied the recently mastered anchors, set new ones, motivated a little, made an easy, pleasant start and it worked! It is clear that three days is still a weak indicator, but for me it is definitely a breakthrough. For children — very happy!