Behavior/Reward/Chore Chart - 3 year old

Found this online and am thinking of giving it a whirl.



Just not sure how to execute. I'd love to reward him/give a sticker for cleaning up his toys, listening to mommy first time, poop on potty, etc. But how do I display/explain to him since he doesn't read?

eta the image is so small I will type what it says

On the left it says "Things I need to work on" and the days of the week are listed across the top with a box under each to place a marker/sticker.

Message edited 5/18/2011 12:04:37 PM.

Re: Behavior Chart - 3 year old

got a link?

Re: Behavior Chart - 3 year old

I think you would be better off with pictures of a child eating, sitting on the potty, etc. You could probably find clip art online, or use actual photos to make your own chart. If a child can't read, I don't think a verbal chart like this helps much.

Re: Behavior/Reward/Chore Chart - 3 year old

Hrm.. think maybe you could use images. I'm the kind to draw a picture of a potty or a bed or blocks of toys, a bathtub, a book.

Things I want AJ to do:
Pick up
Take a bath
Read a book
Brush her teeth
Go to bed

Re: Behavior/Reward/Chore Chart - 3 year old

Honestly at 3, I would work on one behavior at a time that you are trying to modify. For us, it was having her stay in her bed for the entire night. We gave her a sticker for every time she did it. It worked like a charm. So for you, I would pick the behavior you would most like to see changed such as picking up her toys and then move on to the next one.

All you need is a simple piece of paper and let your child pick out the stickers

Re: Behavior/Reward/Chore Chart - 3 year old

Posted by CkGm

Honestly at 3, I would work on one behavior at a time that you are trying to modify. For us, it was having her stay in her bed for the entire night. We gave her a sticker for every time she did it. It worked like a charm. So for you, I would pick the behavior you would most like to see changed such as picking up her toys and then move on to the next one.

All you need is a simple piece of paper and let your child pick out the stickers

Re: Behavior/Reward/Chore Chart - 3 year old

Posted by CkGm

Honestly at 3, I would work on one behavior at a time that you are trying to modify. For us, it was having her stay in her bed for the entire night. We gave her a sticker for every time she did it. It worked like a charm. So for you, I would pick the behavior you would most like to see changed such as picking up her toys and then move on to the next one.

All you need is a simple piece of paper and let your child pick out the stickers

Re: Behavior/Reward/Chore Chart - 3 year old

We use Mickey Mouse rewards charts for our girls (2 and 4). the 2 year old doesn't really get it but everything with my girls is monkey see-monkey do so she follows in her big sisters footsteps with it.

It has rows with certain things to accomplish and then columns for each day of the week. Then it is broken down into sections (taking care of me, my p's and q's, cool at school, playing around, home sweet home). Each section has lines with preprinted rewards for them to earn and then some blank ones. At the very bottom is space for their names, total marks for the day, total for the week, the goal and what the reward for getting all of the goals.

We started with DD at 3 1/2. Every morning we go over what we need to do in order to get the check marks needed for the special reward at the end of the week. If there is someplace fun I know we are going to be going, we put that as our reward. This weekend her choice of reward is a visit to the Disney Store. She understands that if she doesn't read her books, pick up her toys or play nice with her sister she won't get her reward at the end of the week. Doesn't mean she actually does all of these things and has a fit if she doesn't earn her reward. But she go run and get a book and bring it to me asking if we can read it so she can get her check mark. Then before we go into bed, we take out the chart and she gets to put a check in the box for everything she did do that day and we total it up. Then I let her know if she had a good day or needs to do better the next day to catch up on her check marks

Re: Behavior/Reward/Chore Chart - 3 year old

We use the melissa and doug magnetic one....(CHEAPER overall) and now at 3 1/2 we have added teddys chores to the chart...ie making bed, helping set the table etc etc

Re: Behavior/Reward/Chore Chart - 3 year old

DS is 3 1/2 and at first I tried to do a chart that had pictures for various things... going on the potty, getting dressed, brushing teeth, etc.

I found that it was just too overwhelming for him and he wasn't being rewarded enough. So I stripped the whole thing down and turned it into a "listening" chart.

It has a picture of a child holding their ears as if listening on the top. It has 4 rows... 10 velcro spots in each row.

Whenever he does something that we like, goes on the potty when he first wakes up, gets dressed without giving us issues, cleans up toys, gets through the school day without a poopy accident... he gets to put a happy face on the chart. We are having poop issues, so if he tells us he has to poop he gets a happy face and if he goes poop on the potty he gets 2 happy faces. If he stays in bed at night he gets a happy face in the morning.

Once he fills up an entire row, he gets a prize... things I pick up at the dollar store. When he fills in the whole chart, he gets something a little bigger.

We leave it not specific because we can always add things or change things as we go. It has really been working.

I am toying with the idea of taking happy faces away when he doesn't listen, but haven't been consistent with that at the moment.