Princess Angelica
"Drew," Charlotte said as her husband walked into their exercise room, carrying a large box with cords dangling out of it, "I appreciate you trying to help with my broken fax machine but I don't think a Playerboy 180 will help." She paused. "Unless they added new features…"
"Its not that," Drew said grumpily. "I just need to store this somewhere."
"What happened?" Charlotte said, getting off the treadmill.
"Angelica's room was a mess and I gave her several chances to begin cleaning it up. She didn't."
"So you took away the gaming system?" Charlotte said.
"I did."
"Good," Charlotte said with a firm nod. "We made a deal with Angelica and she broke it. She has to understand that there are penalties for not keeping your word. She thinks she's a princess that runs this house… its time for her to learn that she is not."
What followed was not a fun day at the Pickles home. Angelica first tried to just not think about playing her video game system but thinking about not playing it made her REALLY want to play it and in the end she got upset and threw a fit. Her daddy had stood firm though and told her that she would only get the game system back when she cleaned her room. Then she tried to get the system herself only to get caught and that earned her a time out. Finally she tried just screaming and throwing a fit but that got her no dessert after supper and no tv either.
Finally Angelica had broken down and begun to clean up her room. And while it was boring and hard she did discover a lot of toys she'd forgotten she even had, and found some clothing she'd misplaced…
And when she was done her daddy had finally let her have the video game system back but he had warned that she would need to keep her room clean.
Which… kind of took the fun out of the achievement knowing she'd have to KEEP keeping things clean.