Can anyone tell me where my daughter left this book?  It’s a library book and I’m tired of paying for library books. 

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Months ago, Alex broke Cassie’s Nintendo DS Lite.  Ever since then, I told Alex that she had to share her Nintendo with Cassie until I could do something about the problem.  I was able to find a replace case online that would allow me to swap the guts out of the broken DS (actually only the case was broken, but that made it unusable) into the new case. 

I stayed up late last night doing this.  After following the instructions to the best of my ability, I was able to get everything into the new case.  It appeared to work, until I found that the touch screen was not working.  After opening it back up and going back through the instructions, I realized that I had not followed one of the instructions properly and I had broken the touch screen.

Since this has been an open issue for a while and both girls worked for their Nintendos’, I feel I still need to do something about this because Cassie does not have her own Nintendo DS.  Having them share the one working DS is not fair to Cassie.  Giving Alex’s working DS to Cassie (without any other concessions) is not quite fair to Alex.  After speaking to my mom about this, she came up with…

Give Cassie control of Alex’s Nintendo.  Give Alex a chance to get it back by doing the same thing she did to get it in the first place (read 100 books in a month).  Once she reads the books, her reward is to get her DS back and I give Cassie a new one for Alex’s effort.  While the DS is in Cassie’s control, Alex can use it at Cassie’s discretion.  If Alex decides not to work to get it back, Cassie gets Alex’s DS to do with as she pleases.  This would be a one-time thing.  If a DS gets broken in the future, it does not get replaced with Dad’s money.

Anyone have any thoughts about this?

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