No Karaoke Revolution for 24 days...

My older daughter is now into day 3 of her "sentence" and I think she's holding up.

She really enjoyed Konami's Karaoke Revolution, and she was excited to hear that a sequel was coming out. We purchased it online at Costco.com and received it in the mail earlier this week. Right before bedtime, our girls were playing the game, and my wife told my older daughter it was time to go to bed. Unfortunately, she was determined to try to get "Gold" on one of the songs, and she started crying because she wanted to try just one more time.

Ultimately, she spun somewhat out of control and accidentally hit her sister on the same arm that got all the allergy testing. Then, my wife had two kids out of control on her, and my older daughter was prohibited from singing Karaoke Revolution for 24 days - one day for each allergy testing site on my younger daughter's arm.

I was gone through most of this, as I was helping my wife's cousin to debug issues with their home Internet connection. That said, at my wife's direction, I did have a chat with my older daughter so that she understood that the punishment was not about having a determination to do better but rather to not to let things get out of control to the point there are other unforeseen consequences...

While I normally don't think that singing would be considered a risk factor for exacerbating pain in someone else's arm, chaos theory can probably explain this. :)

In any case, I think my older daughter is now handling the situation well. I think she'll learn the lesson well.