darkSpyro

To give our 5 and 6 year old daughters a tangible reason to behave and do what they are suppose to, my wife and I will buy a "prize" of some sort the first week of each month. These prizes are placed on top of the refrigerator, as a constant reminder of what they are working towards.

They get "stars" for an abundance of activities such as: Keeping their rooms clean and beds made without being reminded, completing all assigned chores daily, extra stars for above average good behavior days and so on. These stars essentially become their allowance.

They also "lose" stars for throwing tantrums, not listening, violence, not completing daily chores and homework when asked.

If they earn the predetermined amount of stars - which we've calculated to be a 95% job completion rate, which allows for a few tantrums and chores that might not get done due to lack of time (because of their parents LOL), they get their prize at the end of the month.

I am so happy to integrate Skylanders characters into this reward program. Quality toys and prizes are often expensive, luckily $20 for a couple Skylanders or a three pack isn't so bad.

Any other parents have similar reward structures for their kids? I know it might not be good for them to always need something to work towards, but I hope it teaches them some work ethic and makes them realize that setting goals and rewarding yourself when you meet them is an appropriate indulgence.

We do a looser version of this at my house. So far my daughter 9 has a larger collection than my son 5, but I'm sure he'll get them all eventually.

I'm not a parent, but this is a really awesome thing you're doing for your kids. :) Having a goal to work toward is good for just about everybody. Heck, I might try this with myself; maybe I'll get my own chores done this way. :D

oh! get them to watch bill nye the science guy and the magic school bus
if you want them to get into the sciences big time, those will work wonders.
warning; they'll probably have trouble in high school due to being "nerds", but high school is an utterly superfluous and meaningless social construct anyway so who cares?

I've used a similar system with my daughter. The only snag has been finding the figures. There has been times that we can't find any to reward her. I have also used time playing skylanders as a reward. If my daughter has so many stickers on her chart at the end of the day she can play skylanders with Mommy.

My Aunt is trying to get my little cousin to pull his tooth out. So she is bribing him with Doublr trouble.
So he said "can i at least see it?" So she let him and went down stairs. And then she was thinking how quite it was upstairs and went.
And there he was Playing with him threw the box! !!!!!!
He got in a lot of trouble thow.
I guess thats why the called him Double trouble!!!! !!!!

My mom is kinda the same way w/ me. If one of my grades is failing, she'll take away a Skylander.

HASN'T BEEN DONE YET

AWW YEAUH

Indeed misbehavior means no Skylanders for at least one day (depending on what mischief was done). It's been the most effective reward/punishment system we've had on the kids to date.

Do good get new Skylanders.
Do bad and you can't play.

Oh yes, the game itself works well for that too!

Each of our girls has one specific thing that we like to say "if you do that, no Skylanders".

For our 6 year old, it's moving at a snails pace to get ready for school. She should be autonomous in the morning, with the exception of prepping breakfast.

For our 5 year old, it is chewing on her shirt sleeve/licking her lips - both of which she will do till she has raw skin from saliva irritation.

Since we got Skylanders, mornings have been MUCH more pleasant with the six year old. She really appreciates getting time to play Skylanders between homework and dinner time.

My son of seven has ADHD and I use the Xbox as a reward for good behavior. I use skylanders as an incentive to make good grades. He gets points for As, much fewer points for BS and no points for Cs, which he hasn't gotten any of since I started this with him. After a certain number of points he gets a new skylander. He is currently banking his points for a set of legendaries, which he does not know I have already gotten him in anticipation of him gathering enough points.

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My son of seven has ADHD and I use the Xbox as a reward for good behavior. I use skylanders as an incentive to make good grades. He gets points for As, much fewer points for BS and no points for Cs, which he hasn't gotten any of since I started this with him. After a certain number of points he gets a new skylander. He is currently banking his points for a set of legendaries, which he does not know I have already gotten him in anticipation of him gathering enough points.

that's actually a pretty good idea, a scalar system instead of yay or nay

Fortunately, thus far - I don't have to worry about grades for either girl, especially the older one. But I will keep that in mind as well.

Every parent who is doing this should be happy because 16+ more figures are coming out by fall.

The reward system is really good if executed properly. I prefer the reward system than to simply giving them what they want. We even incorporated a point system which has a monetary value based on the points acquired. They get points if they do good and lose points if they mess up.