  urlLink Speaking as a parent: January 2004 Archives : "The period just after Xmas brought home to me the problems of running an incentive-led household as opposed to a discipline-driven one. With Father Christmas's visit over and the big parental presents doled out there was an authority vacuum of alarming proportions. What to do when the good little chldn of Xmas Eve turn into the surly little brats of Boxing Day?
In the presence of such an abundance of toys and sweets I reckoned we needed to find another form of leverage so I decided to look for seasonal games on the net. Not with a view to playing them but rather to withholding them as a penalty for bad behaviour, as necessary. I found several sites with free games but then wished I hadn't when Jake deliberately behaved irreproachably in order to be able to spend hours shooting elves and reindeer playing Polar Cull 2. " 
