Our local library has a program, like many, for children over the summer. Read some books, get a prize. Ours is - read as many books as you want and keep track towards your goal, get a free book as a reward. (There is clearly no losing in this system.) But your kid needs to pick the number of books they want to read over the summer.
Me: "Zachary, how many books do you want to set as your summer reading goal?"
(My going in position is something like 30 books is a reasonable starting place)
Zachary, without pause: "100 books."
Me, startled: "Um, that's a lot of books. There's like 7 weeks left of summer so thats..."
Zachary, interrupting: "Mom, if I read 5 books a day... that's... (some finger counting occurs) - 20 days. So its no big deal."
Me, speechless briefly: "Right. Ok then. 100 books it is."
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That's my nephew!
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