Tokens
We've implemented a token system in our house. I purchased blue and clear glass floral marbles (the kind you'd find in the bottom of a vase). These are our "tokens." The blue ones are worth 5 tokens and the clear ones are worth one token. A token equates (once accumulated) to a dollar. Madison has a responsibility chart on the fridge and everyday that she successfully completes all of her responsibilities she earns a clear token. Each time she earns "hardest worker" at gymnastics she earns a blue token. This is getting expensive already as she gets hardest worker almost every time. Gymnastics twice a week, hardest worker twice a week = $10 a week. OUCH! Obviously this is an incentive that's working well because it truly has motivated Madison. When we watched my friend's boys last weekend, Madison was quite the helper. She helped the boys with everything and was quite the babysitter, so she earned a token for her help that day. When school starts back up I'm sure we'll add tokens as incentives for report card success as well.
She can lose tokens too! Lately we've been struggling with being grateful. Ungratefulness requires a token to be taken away. The other thing we've been struggling with is learning how to end a good time graciously. Madison has a hard time leaving a fun situation. She whines and pouts and begs to stay longer. So, this behavior also causes her to lose a token. When she accumulates a significant amount of tokens she can trade them in for something of value . . . a new video game, a new leotard, whatever she wants (with my approval of course!).
Other news . . . our June 11th court date as postponed. We filed our counter-petition and now we're being required to attempt mediation first. Our mediation date is set for August 9th. This should be an interesting waste of time and money. Then we have a new hearing date set for September 26th assuming we don't find resolution in mediation. I fully expect to be in a hearing on the 26th.
We've implemented a token system in our house. I purchased blue and clear glass floral marbles (the kind you'd find in the bottom of a vase). These are our "tokens." The blue ones are worth 5 tokens and the clear ones are worth one token. A token equates (once accumulated) to a dollar. Madison has a responsibility chart on the fridge and everyday that she successfully completes all of her responsibilities she earns a clear token. Each time she earns "hardest worker" at gymnastics she earns a blue token. This is getting expensive already as she gets hardest worker almost every time. Gymnastics twice a week, hardest worker twice a week = $10 a week. OUCH! Obviously this is an incentive that's working well because it truly has motivated Madison. When we watched my friend's boys last weekend, Madison was quite the helper. She helped the boys with everything and was quite the babysitter, so she earned a token for her help that day. When school starts back up I'm sure we'll add tokens as incentives for report card success as well.
She can lose tokens too! Lately we've been struggling with being grateful. Ungratefulness requires a token to be taken away. The other thing we've been struggling with is learning how to end a good time graciously. Madison has a hard time leaving a fun situation. She whines and pouts and begs to stay longer. So, this behavior also causes her to lose a token. When she accumulates a significant amount of tokens she can trade them in for something of value . . . a new video game, a new leotard, whatever she wants (with my approval of course!).
Other news . . . our June 11th court date as postponed. We filed our counter-petition and now we're being required to attempt mediation first. Our mediation date is set for August 9th. This should be an interesting waste of time and money. Then we have a new hearing date set for September 26th assuming we don't find resolution in mediation. I fully expect to be in a hearing on the 26th.
posted by Forever Amber at 5:25 AM
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