Chore Chart - Week 1

Last week, we started a Chore Chart for Collin.  On the chart were the following chores based on what Collin needs to work on for the week:

• No hitting - he is better at this but needs to work on the random hitting he does to me.  Plus, the teacher says that he still hits at school when he is mad.
• Put clothes away - he needs to start learning to put his dirty clothes n the hamper in his bathroom
• Brush teeth - he is lazy about this.  He will let me brush his teeth but hurriedly does it when I make him do it on his own.
• No whining at bed time - ahhhh...I would love this it he would stop whining and crying at bed time.
• Put clothes on by himself
• Put shoes on by himself

If he completed a chore successfully, then he got to put a magnetic star next to the chore he accomplished.  There were several different colors of the stars.  Instead of choosing the next star in the bag to put the star next to the chore, he made sure that the stars for the day where the same color.  Way too cute!  The incentive at the end of the week was that he got 5 coins for 20 stars on the chart.  Gotta start small, right?

He did GREAT with putting his clothes and shoes on.  He did better about brushing his teeth and really needs to work on hitting and whining at bed time BUT he did do MUCH better about crying at bed time.  I could tell him about the stars on his chart and could see him think about what he was doing and either stop or do the chore so that he could get a star. 

We are starting Week 2 and off to a great start.  He got a star for everything today.  Yeah Collin!