Today Connor came home from school with a little homework and one sheet that the teacher said he didn't finish up in class. He also brought home another worksheet that was incomplete and originally the teacher was saying that he had to get that done as well. That is, until she realized almost no body in the class had completed that sheet yet and so she said she would just have them do it in class tomorrow.
I took this as an opportunity to test a little theory. It was clear Connor has his regular homework to do, and he had to finish up the one worksheet, but I told him that if he finished up the OTHER worksheet, the one the teacher said they would do in class tomorrow, I would give him 10 experience points for taking on this extra mission.
He jumped at the chance. It went pretty well, but Connor being Connor he was still a little stubborn and argumentative about how he should go about doing the sheet. It took a while but he did finish it and I gave him 6 xp instead of 10 xp because he messed around so much while he was doing it.
But the point is, he did the extra work. Voluntarily.
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