Mom vs. Anika

Lately I've had a lot of issues with Anika taking a shower. 

Evening Senario

Mom: "Anika are you going to take a shower tonight?"

Anika: "No, I told I'm going to take one in the morning."

Morning Senario

Mom: "Anika it's time to get up and get in the shower."

Anika: "I'm going to take one tonight."

Then Anika not only refuses to get up, she refuses to get dressed, eat breakfast,

make her lunch and, brush her teeth.  Every morning we fight.

Lately, as we run through the morning senario, I've been giving Anika choice

Mom: "You can choose either get up and get in the shower within the next 5 minutes

 or you can choose to make mom mad and pay the consequenses."

5 minutes later...Anika still in bed.

Mom is fuming...

Mom goes to the kitchen gets a glass of water and the shampoo,

dumps the water on her sleeping child and,

begins to shampoo Anika's head."

Anika is now irate!  She's screaming, fuming and, claiming that I now need to clean

up after my mess.

Mom "I'm sorry, cleaning up is part of the consequences you chose."

Anika has been getting up to take showers ever since.

I love choices!