Bribing Rian

A while ago, we'd bribed Rian with 5 mins of TV time - he has one favorite DVD of Marathi songs for kids with cartoons. This worked well for us when he absolutely wouldn't have a single morsel of food. It started backfiring when Rian started pointing to the TV every night at dinner time and with his nanny Cely too. We promptly stopped any TV time at dinner.

With the advent of winter and dipping temperatures and cold/cough that Rian and nanny Cely have caught, they don't seem to go out for their morning walk which used to be an hour. Long summer evenings had Rian playing outside in our complex but winter makes it dark and cold outside at 5pm, thus ending play for Rian before it begins. Today he is so desperate to go out (bujja) that I bribed him to sleep saying if you sleep now, we will go bujja once you wake up. I'm planning to use the same one to make him eat something before we leave for the evening. Let's see how that goes!