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I do think it's appropriate to have him work off SOME of the price of the thumb drive. But those chores should not be fun ones.
As to the forgetting stuff, if he forgets, he takes the academic consequences. BUT the policy here was, with my Big DS who I think was pulling the same stunt at that age, if he "forgot" his homework stuff at school, there would be no computer games, no TV, that night. He could read or go outside. For him, that was a big consequence. I've also made him do assignments way after the date the teacher would accept them (and I consulted with the teacher on this). She then graded the assignment "If this had been on time, it would have been an A." He got no credit, becaue it was too late, but he got the message.
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