Kid Nation 7

Today we watched another Kid Nation. In the episode one of the kids open a snack bar with apples, jerky, peaches, and other items. But the girl with the snack bar was taking the stuff from the kitchen. This is a negative deviance because she's technically stealing. Negative defiance is behavior that falls short of expectations and is most commonly  thought of as deviant like robbing people. Then Jared starting kicking stuff and everyone was becoming enraged. The council read the book and they found  a map to a mine. So the council went to check it out.

The council finally found the mine and went under. Later the kids find a bat and start freaking out. Then a girl put rotten stuff in a pot and told people that there was money in there to dig out. The council found a treasure chest with $18 in there and they are going to buy stuff for Bonanza. They bought footballs, baseball bats and balls and other cool stuff. This is social sanctions. Social sanctions are rewards or punishments to encourage conformity to norms.

One of the kids was home schooled and he was being picked on by Greg. Greg is a deviant. A deviant is a person that breaks society's norms in significant ways; also called a delinquent.
Later the kids are called to a showdown and they have to collect golden eggs by sling shotting eggs in a sling shot to a pillow to cushion the egg. Once they catch them another person has to bring it back to their district. They have a 15 minute timer. This challenge was difficult due to communication difficulties. They had to win 12 dozen eggs to win the reward. The blue district won first, yellow won second, green won third, and red won last. They either got a washer or free laundry. They chose the free laundry.

One of the kids wanted the gold star because his mom was struggling with bills and stressed out. Greg apologized to Nathan because he was making fun of him. David wants to win the gold star because she wants to be a doctor. Most of the gold star votes went to Pharaoh and David. They call everyone to a town hall meeting to give away a gold star. They asked the kids if they like the work of the council and most of them said yes. When they asked who wanted to leave no one did. Nathan won the gold star. Nathan was speechless and he was surprised. And Nathan said he would still work hard even though he won the star.