A week ago we started a sticker system with our eldest son (3.5 years old) to encourage healthy habits such as keeping his room tidy, co-operating in the morning with respect to getting dressed, brushing hair, eating breakfast and so on, as well as him sleeping in his own bed at night, each completed activity earns him a sticker. Today it became clear to us that he'd cracked the system. For most of today he's been especially helpful and coming to me at least every half hour to ask me whether there is something he can do for me, something helpful. He then requests a sticker for the piece of completed work, e.g. putting a dirty clothing item into the wash bin :-)
The conversation then evolved to me having to categorise his "helper" work so that he clearly understood what it takes to earn a new sticker. Earlier he also said to me that he knew where the stickers are kept, implying that getting a sticker was a simple as fetching it in the draw under the microwave, perfectly logical.
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