Sophie's reward chart

Sophie will be 2 in a few weeks and she can be a helpful little thing but she can also be a wrecking ball of mess as well, the fast i tidy the faster she deverstates the house no corner untouched by her destruction, how can something so small cause so much mess.  Ali and i have been talking about getting her a reward chart for some time to help her learn responsibility and to get her into practice at being conscientious and working together being part of the family.  I saw some charts in WH Smiths but they were £5 and i could of made one but my time is already stacked pretty high at the moment.  Luckily Ali came back from town with 2 free laminated charts from a children's group that were showcasing in town, what luck and good timing.



We have taped this up at her level and put up 3 chores and 1 thing to achieve, 1 feed the cats, she likes to do this everyday so its an easy achievement and hers her think about caring for others.  2 Recycling and putting rubbish in the bin a good lesson to learn about caring for our environment.  3 Tidy toys maybe this will help her think and be a little less destructive.  4 No num num (dummy) We are trying to wean her off her num num and just let her have it for sleeping. We take it away for day but she stomps around the house shouting at the top of her voice NUM NUM repeatedly i think i may need some ear muffs for a few days, otherwise we may have to wait till we can reason with her about not having it.

As you can see from the chart she got 3 out of 4 failing on Num num as she manage to get hold of one and was happily and quietly sitting on the bed watching Mr Tumble and sucking on it. Oh well its only the second day we will see if we can do better tomorrow with Num num.  So because she did so well on her first chart she gets a Bigger sticker for her second chart, which technically is a iv been good or bad chart but as i said there is no reasoning yet so its fun to use to show good rewarding behaviour from the first chart and the consequences of that good behaviour is a nice reward at the end of the week.  Were thinking of taking photos of different things and activities and letting her choose her reward.  For a while now we have been giving her multiple choice on a number of activities and choices through out the day to help her thinking and learning and free will.