Sometimes my students, during the day, will earn "time outs" for recess where they have to stand a while and not get to play for a few minutes. Occasionally, I'll make a deal with the offender. If you don't get in trouble for the rest of the day, I'll forget about your timeout.
One morning, a kid had gotten in trouble during breakfast, before even getting to the classroom, and earned a time out. Since the kid wasn't the type to usually get in trouble, I made the deal with them.
About ten minutes later, we were in the classroom ready to go. The kid raised their hand and asked if they had gotten rid of the time out yet.
"Not yet" I said, "You've only been in here a few minutes."
"I know" they answered. "But I'm on a roll by being good so far and I don't want to ruin it."
The scarier thing is that the longer I think about that, the more sense it makes.
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