You get a star

[Nebulous]

So I started this reward system with my six year old. She has this card up on the wall. Every time she does good (Cleans her room, shares her toys, helps clean other parts of the house/outside, behaves well at the store / out in public, etc etc) she gets a star on the card. Once she gets 10 stars she gets to choose a trip to the dollar store (to get a couple toys) or trip to Mc Donalds (to get a kids meal w/ a toy and gets to play in the play area there).

I figured it would be better to reward her for doing good instead of yelling at her to get things done. It has worked out great so far. Her mom started doing it too. She was getting tired of constantly harping on her to clean her room and whatnot too. Now our lil one jumps at the opportunity to help out.

 

[Madyy]

Sounds a lot like what my aunt and uncle are doing with my little cousins. They each have a chart on the side of the fridge with 10 columns and I dunno how many rows. They get a sticker if they do something good, like help their mom or dad or clean their rooms or the living room or something like that. If they fight, they get it taken off. The younger one, Jonah, doesn't really care about it, but the older one, Shelby, does, and she freaks out if you threaten to take her sticker. I don't think either one of them have gotten a whole row filled out...my aunt said that if they fill out a whole row on their chart, they get to go to the Dollar General or something like that.

 

[Raven]

Never had this when I was a kid, but I know it has helped parents. Is a good idea.

 

[Jazzy]

So I started this reward system with my six year old. She has this card up on the wall. Every time she does good (Cleans her room, shares her toys, helps clean other parts of the house/outside, behaves well at the store / out in public, etc etc) she gets a star on the card. Once she gets 10 stars she gets to choose a trip to the dollar store (to get a couple toys) or trip to Mc Donalds (to get a kids meal w/ a toy and gets to play in the play area there).

I figured it would be better to reward her for doing good instead of yelling at her to get things done. It has worked out great so far. Her mom started doing it too. She was getting tired of constantly harping on her to clean her room and whatnot too. Now our lil one jumps at the opportunity to help out.

What a great idea and I give you a

for being such a great dad. Now all you need is 9 more and and you get rewarded too!

 

[Evil Eye]

Bribery!

Awesome!

 

[Princess]

Positive re-enforcement is the best way to go.

 

[Evil Eye]

Positive re-enforcement is the best way to go.

I see bureaucracy and political correctness are there too

Anyway

 

[Princess]

I see bureaucracy and political correctness are there too

Anyway

I don't know about PC, but when you have kids--you do whatever it takes to get the job done. All I ever had to say to my youngest was I'm so disappointed that your room is dirty That took care of it. The middle one (also a boy) I could beat him within an inch of his life, and it didn't help. With our daughter--we had to give her one specific task at a time in order to get the job done (now pick up your books, OK, now make your bed--then let me know when that's done. Now you can put away your clean laundry....etc--she had a learning disability) Until she learned to cope, that was the only way to get anything done....

 

[Nebulous]

Positive re-enforcement is the best way to go.

True true. Better than yelling at her to get stuff done.