KDENISE977
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This is nothing more than a PSA for any parents who are having a hard time with their young children listening. This isn't a sermon on parenting or what anyone is doing wrong or right. I'm merely sharing what worked for ME. My son is an only child, 3 years old...enough said, only child... I know. His school recently reached out to us and said they were really having a hard time with him and he wasn't listening and basically disrupting the entire classroom. Not much they can do in the form of discipline because everything is considered "abuse". He wasn't acting like a fool at home because he knows we will give him a spanking (rarely) or time outs. SO, at the suggestion of the daycare/school director, we implements a "smiley face" chart. I honestly wasn't on board at first...BUT IT WORKS !!! The kiddo gets smiley faces or sad faces(when he's bad) on his chart every day. Both at home and at school. At school it's taped above his cubby and at home it on the fridge. He's since done a COMPLETE 180. We don't reward for the smileys, just a big hug or "I"m so proud of you" and make a HUGE deal out of the smileys....but if he gets 3 sad faces we take away something for the day, for us, it's his TV time..he loses his television and cartoons the entire evening. It's been working brilliantly. We haven't actually had to use the no TV nights because he's not had 3 sad faces at all. He's actually ASKING can he do this or can he do that, where as before he was just up and ON the table dancing around like a crazy person
Again, I'm just sharing what is working for us and if it helps anyone else...
Again, I'm just sharing what is working for us and if it helps anyone else...