The Huge Benefits Of Using A Star Chart

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A star chart can be an effective tool for raising happy, helpful children

One of the best tools for raising children who will grow into responsible adults is a star chart. After all, children have so much to learn and achieve in life that it seems like an endless journey that can be easy to lose focus on. Life can sometimes become so busy and complicated that we forget the small everyday tasks that our children are grappling with and end up leaving them to get on with it themselves. Of course there is much that they can achieve one way or another without much help from us, but at the end of the day they could achieve so much more if we were actively able to work with them. Every child needs to know the satisfaction of a job well done and the ensuing praise and encouragement will be food for their spirits in producing delightful adults who are self-assured and able to take responsibility. Parents must be their ideal teachers, for who else will understand them better?

A star chart does just that. It prevents us from forgetting or ignoring the hurdles that they manage to get over. And there are certainly plenty of them. Let's make sure that we are able to provide for them a safe environment in which they can grow, before they venture into a world that is less forgiving. The huge benefits of star charts helps us find ways to keep our children on task and reward them, when so many are ignored and even neglected. By being such role model ourselves, we can lead the way in them becoming those who enrich the lives of others and offer them hope.

The Rewards Of Praise And Encouragement

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We all need praise and encouragement in order to grow. A reward chart is like the water that the child themself can give to the flower and you can watch it grow and blossom into something strong and beautiful.

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Make your own with your child, incorporating the things they love. Decide together on the rewards and remember to cover it with sticky back plastic, or laminate it so that stickers can be peeled on and off.
Ideas for Reward Charts:
- Dot to Tot Method where the child draws a line between two dots for good behaviour and a line is erased for bad behaviour. When completed, a picture will appear. Similarly, a colour by numbers chart works well for siblings who need to learn to get on together. Each has a colour, which is coloured in each time they display good behaviour. Again, a picture emerges once the chart has been coloured in.
- A reward box which contains anything such as rubber animals or small balls, which the child fishes out with a net for good behaviour. After four items, they receive a reward.
- Use categories such as "getting ready for school", so that they receive a sticker for each task completed on time.
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Teach A Child

Train [teach] a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.
Proverbs 22:6 - (NIV)

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Rewarding Older Children For Taking Responsibility

A simpler form of reward charts can be giving a child a voucher each time they do something constructive, such as clean their room, do their homework, practice their instrument or clean out their pets cage. These can then be exchanged for time (to be decided) on the computer or TV or favours such as getting a lift.

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  • Bus_Stop_Toy_Shop Sep 19, 2010 @ 2:52 am | delete
    Yep, we make big use of reward charts in our house - they really do work. Well written article on them :)
  • BuckHawk May 8, 2010 @ 6:45 am | delete
    Wish I knew of this lens when my girls were young - would've saved some big battles in our house! Can one use this on 30-year-olds?? :-)
  • bdkz May 5, 2010 @ 8:38 pm | delete
    Great lens!
  • The-Java-Gal May 5, 2010 @ 2:38 pm | delete
    We all need validation, and it's nice to see it. Nicely done.
  • tssfacts May 5, 2010 @ 8:58 am | delete
    I still remember the award charts I had growing up. It was star stickers on a regular calendar. Each of us had our own calendar. Sometimes I would have more than one star in the same day. Great lens.
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