That his cousin so readily considers the suggestion and promotes it to a method he could use to cooperate with Chad to benefit them both is promising. Should Russell deem something necessary, he can leave it to Chad to decide what manner in which the goal is accomplished. “Exactly. I used to give Emiko choices for dinner and she’d select what I’d fix from things I felt ready to make. Or if she needed to clean her room, I’d give her choices of when to do it, and hold her to it.” Which was not always easy at first, but became part of expectation with repetition and allowed him to avoid reliance on bribery.

“That would be practical. Which should give you more time to figure out how you want to handle it,” he says as he picks up and starts on that third slice of pizza at a slower pace than the first two were devoured.

After a moment, he’ll inquire from his cousin, “Off the top of your head, you wouldn’t know anyone hiring that would accept a student for part time, would you?”