After much yelling and screaming about picking up this, clean up that and don't do this and that, my hubby and I were looking at ways to motivate our children or bluntly---bribe them to be good!
I searched the web and found wonderful ideas about stickers and charts but we wanted a system that was more visually attainable. So we decided to work with tokens or poker chips. Each child gets their own token color (so they can't pinch some from their sibling's) and collects them in their own box. My hubby has a daily token reward ceremony for the kids and they get so excited and happy to receive their tokens and surprisingly not bummed when they don't but are determined to get their tokens the next day! This also works when disciplining them, so if they misbehave or don't behave nicely then they can have their token(s) taken away.
They get tokens based on different chores they do or accomplishments. We are starting off with just a few so it was simple for them to understand. They would get rewarded with tokens for not peeing in the bed (we don't punish them since it's not really their fault and did you know that bed wetting is actually hereditary?), sleeping in their bed (they like getting in our bed, which is fine but then they pee in our bed--sometimes after peeing in theirs!) and cleaning up their room.
They also have another color token that they can receive from their school teacher to receive a super duper prize as well! This has been tremendously effective with my son and with great help from his teacher.
So far, it's been working wonderfully and we hope to add more chores onto the chart and later introduce monetary rewards.
Have a wonderful weekend!!!
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