Earlier this week Jake and I took Zoe Bug to Chuck E. Cheese. She is not a fan of the giant mouse but loves all the button pushing, flashing lights, gold coins, and ticket collecting. In fact when it was time to feed her tickets back into the machine to get a grand total she chose to keep some of her tickets to take home. Silly girl. Anyhow we spent $10 on tokens and let her play for over an hour. She had a blast.
When it was time to choose her prize there were several other children waiting to claim their prizes as well. We talked with Zoe and pointed to a couple different choices she had with the amount of tickets she had collected. She decided on one of the little pink and silver bracelets. More children were at the counter now claiming their prizes as well and still Zoe is waiting. She stands there looking longingly into the glass case of toys at the bracelet she has chosen. About this time a manager steps behind the counter. He pauses to talk with Zoe. After just a minute he reaches behind him and pulls out a silver and pink crown along with the bracelet that Zoe has chosen, candy, and stickers. He handed them all to my sweet little Zoe.
Zoe had nowhere near the points required to earn the prizes given to her but she learned an important lesson. It is not always easy to be patient and use good manners but there are times that it will have a great reward.
I learned an important lesson too. There is a lot of hard work that goes into teaching a 2yr old good manners but the outcome is more than worth the effort.
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