As you know, Sam is currently the "terrible twos" poster child. After a blog I posted a month or so ago telling about Sam's violence, my friend Tiffany emailed me about a chart that worked for her little boy.
The premise is that you reward your child with a sticker for good behavior, but take stickers away for bad behavior. Every ten or so stickers equals a prize.
Sam's grand prize at the end of the chart is to go horseback riding (courtesy of Selena's parents).
The chart has been up for 2 weeks now and still no prizes awarded. I know Sam basically gets what is going on, because when he does something good (today he kissed Mollie on the forehead), he says, "sticker?"
Devin and I thought that today was going to be the day when Sam would be awarded his first "good boy" prize of going out for ice cream. He was up to 9 stickers with only one more to go. Devin and I were so excited and kept saying in gross, high-pitched voices, "One more sticker and you get ICE CREAM!!!"
Then he hit Mollie and got a sticker taken away. He hit me twice while I was taking down the sticker and got 2 more taken away. And so on and so forth.
I can tell this is going to be a long road. We will be accepting sticker donations.
8 comments:
Oh Sam! First of all- I have to say that I LOVE that picture of him! He looks like such a little boy and not a baby!!!
I think the sticker chart will be really good for him and it sounds like he's obviously getting the idea. I have just one idea (and this is coming from someone with no kids) but what if you made the first prize a little easier to attain? Like after 3 stickers he gets a small little prize and he can work his way up to the 10 sticker ice cream prize. It just seems like maybe he needs a little encouragement in feeling like he can actually accomplish something...? And then maybe he will realize that good behavior DOES get rewards and he can actually experience an award that will motivate him to do more, thus attaining the ice cream award and so on. Maybe 10 stickers is too high of a goal for him at first.
But I'm not a parents so take my advice with a grain of salt!
I love you Sam!
Whitney is so intuitive!!! I think she is right on! I was always told to put more emphasis on good behavior than bad. That way good gets the reward and the bad goes away somehow. It works!
I love the chart BTW!
Sam looks so big and grown up now! I agree with Whitney. I like that chart idea! He'll get there though. I know he will!
HAHAHA! I love this! It is EXACTLY what I need for Halle right now! Great idea, hopefully he gets to ten soon enough and starts to get it! Love you guys and that little stinker of yours!
Keep up that great work! Whitney's ideas are right on too!
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xoxo
I will have to try this with Spencer. He does not listen AT ALL!! Drives me nuts. I hope the chart works for you. :) Good luck!
i love that hat sam is wearing! good job with the good boy chart! I can't wait till he gets his BIG prize!
My kids still say "Sticker?" when they do something nice and we haven't had the chart up for almost a year now. I still tell them yes. In the beginning of "The Chart" Blake lost so many stickers we'd have to take the chart down. It's so hard to be a parent sometimes! I hope it goes well for all of you though!
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