We are ready to go on holiday to visit grandma and i just freek out thinking about the last time we were there, when DD (5 1/2 at that time) behaved like a monster. Nothing stoped her until i set the damn' chart in place and she could see the black dots instead of the damn' stars .... when is this going to end? when is it just gonna be 'i do this because it's the right thing to do' .... i know, i know, silly question, it's just that i feel so fed up with not being able to just explain things and instead having to 'buy' the good behavior with stars and so on ..... aaaaaarrrrgghhhhhhh! I'm fed up with those charts!
Am i doing something wrong here? DD is 6. Shouldn't she have started already some time ago to understand right from wrong? I am afraid she is already dependant on the little rewards and that i am using this reward system wrongly!
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Does it always have to be about bribing? rewarding? why can't they just understand that this is the right thing to do?!
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joburg · 04/08/2009 10:28
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