Sawyer's Reward Board

I'm going to try and blog during naptime. We'll see how it goes! I would really like to get back to blogging once a week. There will be more photo ops as the weather gets warmer and it gets darker later.

This time change is really making me crazy! Chloe and Sawyer are sleeping later in the morning which I like. What I don't like is that her morning nap is later which means a later afternoon nap for she and Sawyer. We have had some pretty long days this week!

Lorne and I have been wracking our brains trying to figure out what to do with Sawyer. He isn't following directions and he's pushing Chloe more and more. We've each tried spanking him a few times, but it didn't seem to do any good. A huge part of why I quit teaching was because I just couldn't handle the almost daily dose of disrespect from some of my students. I cannot and will not have that in my own home.

Enter my friend Kristy and her wonderful idea. She said that she used a dry erase board with her oldest daughter Caroline and kept track of her behaviors that way. Lorne thought of something similar around the same time. We looked through magazines last night and cut out pictures of Curious George, Nemo, books, a cookie, and a shower and put them on magnets. Sawyer gets three red X's for each offense and he loses that privilege. The privileges are TV (movies and shows), storytime at naptime and bedtime, dessert after supper, and showering with Lorne.

Today has been pretty rocky. This isn't how it works on Supernanny. Jo suggests that the families do something and *PRESTO* instant compliant children. Lorne said that I have to keep in mind that there's lots of editing and I think that he's right.

I think that it turned out really well. Here's hoping that it works with Sawyer.