I'm not really a UP parent but I do dislike sticker charts and reward/punishment systems. I seem to be badly mismatched with DD1 though!
When she was a toddler she used to insist on taking herself off 'to the naughty step', despite my protesting that our house had no naughty step.
She's now 4.7 and we have just had a chat. She says I get cross too much. I asked what about, and she says it's mostly when I've asked her to do something and she doesn't do it. She claims that she would get around to it on her own and that I have no need to get cross . So I explained that very often I need her to do things faster, and asked her how she thought I could achieve that without getting cross. Initially she suggested that I should just sort her baby sister out and leave her to it, but when I rejected that she suggested that she should have a sticker chart to reward her good behaviour. She says that if she has a chart and gets a sticker for doing as she is asked, and (her addition) not pulling her sister around, she will always be good.
I asked where she had got the idea from, and whether she knew anyone with a chart like that, and she looked very pleased with herself and insisted that no-one she knows has one and that it was entirely her own invention.
So.... what would you do??? I really don't like sticker charts!
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Parents who dislike sticker charts... wwyd if your dc asked for one?
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Aranea · 28/07/2009 19:42
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