Children’s Currency
We have some goals we have been working on with Gabriel and Hannah. For Gabriel, they are living with his choices, reading and listening the first time. For Hannah, they are getting mobile (walking, crawling), talking, and no biting.
Gabriel has been wanting a new video game for the Wii. Those games are pretty pricey, so we instituted an earning chart. He can get up to 5 stars a day. The chart has space for 200 stars. So if you do the math, each star works out to 25 cents each. So they are not arbitrarily given. We haven’t had a 5-star day yet, but, as he is catching onto the reward system, I see that 5-start day coming closer.
Well, the other day as I was driving Hannah home from school. I stopped to pick up Robert from work. We are lucky he likes to have lunch with us. Robert and I were discussion some behavior of Gabriel’s where we mentioned the stars and quantifying them. Hannah chimed out clearly from the back seat.
"Star"
Robert, the nurse and I looked at each other. "Do you want a star Hannah?" One of us asked.
"Yes, star."
I shrugged "Ok, Hannah I’ll make you a star chart."
She laughed.
--Mom
