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Flameboy has agreed to try a sticker chart! Wish me luck

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Flame · 24/11/2009 18:17

Most of you know my ongoing battle with him and behaviour. I have always thought that he wouldn't care enough about stickers to do it, but after yelling at him again we have had a chat.

It is going to be fairly tedious, and I am ignoring the whole "praise good/ignore bad" thing.

Half hour slots all day - no telling off = sticker, telling off = cross.

Half hour may be long for his attention span, but we'll see how it goes.

Probably breaking many parenting rules and leading him on a path to murdering kittens and stuff, but meh, not getting on well any other way and he is being a git in preschool now too ("a bit of a pickle" which I translate to "a git but cute about it")

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Flame · 25/11/2009 18:01

Half hour in, and he is very chuffed with his star.

(not that any of you care, but I am enjoying a whole progress chart thing)

I know half hour of good behaviour (most of it in the car) isn't much to brag about

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UniS · 25/11/2009 18:55

well done flameboy. Stick with it for a while and see how it goes.

Flame · 25/11/2009 20:39

Bedtime was still loud, but he stayed in there...

DD1 is sulking that he has a chart. I can't win with them!

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UniS · 25/11/2009 22:27

who is the elder, flame boy or flame girl? is she old enough to understand that it might help him be a "nicer" brother? or young enough to just be envious of stickers and want some too.

Flame · 26/11/2009 07:56

The girl - she's 6 compared to his 3, I've tried explaining that it is to stop him being a git (including hitting her), but she is just jealous that he has something that she doesn't.

Tbh I think it is a perfect way to teach her that they can't always have things just because the other does - it has had to work the other way round when she goes to swimming lessons etc and he doesn't yet.

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UniS · 26/11/2009 20:18

Oh dear, she has a touch of the green eyed monsters. Its toughy. guess she will just have to live with it, bit too old for sticker charts now isn't she?
I'm sure thatere are lots of 6 yr old things she can do that he can't, she'll live.

best of luck for teh next few days.

Flame · 26/11/2009 20:37

She's got a pack of stickers now and is happy.

Told preschool what we're doing and they have been great - offered to do a chart at school too if I want, for the time we're going with them telling me how he got on.

5 half hour slots have crosses today, but seeing as I normally feel like I am telling him off all day, that seems quite a good start.

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