Lexi's kindergarten teacher has a clip up/ clip down chart at school.
Lexi talks about it all the time.
It really motivates her to be good at school.
So I made my own version of the chart for our house.
The girls start off the day on yellow, "ready to listen."
(At school, it's "ready to learn.")
When they do something good or have a good attitude I clip them up.
If they do something bad, they get clipped down.
"Think about it" means that we talk about what they've done and how they can improve.
"Take a break" means time out.
"Parent choice" means I decided a fitting consequence/ punishment.
I try to focus more on their positive behavior.
I'm always looking for reasons to clip the girls up.
They can clip up and down all through out the day.
Before bedtime we see where they are on the chart.
They get one "happy rock" if they have clipped up one time.
Two happy rocks if they have clipped up two times.
And three happy rocks if they have clipped up three times.
If they are still on ready to listen or have clipped down they get nothing.
And I don't take happy rocks away.
(At school, Lexi gets a "happy rock" for clipping up one time.
She gets a "happy heart" for clipping up two times.
And if she clips up three times she gets to go to the office and pick out a prize.)
So it's possible for the girls to put a total of six happy rocks in the jar every night.
When the jar is full they get to pick out a reward and then start all over.
The rewards are things like:
Walk to Ream's and pick out a piece of candy, finger paint, go for a walk, play at the play ground, stay up 20 minutes past your bedtime, have mom print out a coloring sheet of your choice, etc.
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