We know preschool kids are constantly on the move. Running, jumping and chasing around means something like a sticker might not always be the best option. Here are our top 5 reward loved by preschool teachers. Let us know your favorite reward method in the comments below or come and say hi on Facebook and Twitter. You’ll find us School Stickers, we’ll see you over there.
A few months ago, my husband and I met a psychologist who advised us to start using rewards with our 6-year-old. Our son is happy, but he struggles at times with his behavior and emotions. (What kid doesn’t?) We wanted to help him become more self-sufficient, more proactive to get dressed in the morning without prompting, to clear his plate after breakfast, to say please and thank you, to put his dirty clothes in the hamper. We also hoped to curb his frequent meltdowns. A positive parenting approach that reinforces good behavior could make this happen, the psychologist told us.
Wristbands
Our wristbands are guaranteed to stick around on a preschoolers wrist and be a great talking point at home time. Our range has 3 different designs which can all be personalized at no added cost with your school or teacher name. Our bright and colorful designs are also great for using on group outings where you need to keep tabs on little ones! These are super easy to use with a peel and stick tab but can’t be pulled off easily so they’re perfect for trips and children who you know will want to play around with their new accessory.
Potty training charts
Toilet training charts increase the success of potty training and are a great way of introducing sticker charts at an early age. Our packs come with 4 x A4 charts and enough reward stickers to fill them all. The matching stickers that come with your chart can be personalized with your child’s name at no added cost which makes the reward process even more exciting. Shop our Boys and Girls potty charts.
We have a huge range of stamps which can be used for everything from decorating to marking work. Our stamps are self inking which means you don’t have to worry about ink pads. These are just our top 3 character stamps, hop on over to our stamper page to see the rest of our designs.
Bright & Colorful Stickers
With our roots in education, we know stickers really boost student motivation a sense of pride. Therefore our stickers come in wide range of designs, for all needs. The majority of our stickers can be customized with any text of your choice at no added cost. You can also use our Sticker Maker, to design your own range of stickers, with your very own images and text.
Reward Charts
Just like our Potty Training Charts, our reward charts provide small incentives for children who are working on behavioral or developmental areas. Our range has all kinds of designs from cars to princesses. The matching stickers that are supplied with all of our charts can be printed with your child’s or class name at no added cost. There is also space on each of our charts to write your child’s or classes name.
After working with thousands of families over my years as a family psychologist, I’ve found that one of the most common predicaments parents face is how to get kids to do what they’re asked. And one of the most common questions parents ask is about tools they can use to help them achieve this goal.
One such tool is the sticker chart, a type of behavior-modification system in which children receive stickers in exchange for desired behaviors like brushing their teeth, cleaning their room, or doing their homework. Kids can later “spend” their accrued stickers on prizes, outings, and treats.
Dos and Don'ts of Reward Systems
1) Make it clear what behavior (or behaviors) you are working to change.
Often parents have many child behaviors that they would like to target. Trying to change every child behavior at once will be overwhelming to a child. So identify just a few behaviors that they child is working on (share with your sibling, get ready for school without an argument) and use the sticker chart solely for those behaviors. The child receives a sticker every time that the child engages in the targeted behavior. They save up the stickers for a reward. Once the targeted behaviors are being done pretty consistently, you can start to work on other behaviors instead.
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2) Identify the prize ahead of time
It is important to identify what the prize is ahead of time, and you can engage your child in the process. For example, you can say "Would you like to work towards a Buzz Lightyear puzzle or a Mickey Mouse book?" If you ask your child to choose from a few potential prizes, you are setting limits on how much you are willing to spend on a prize, and you are also giving your child some buy-in with the process. Kids are more motivated to do things when they have been giving choices during the process.
Identifying the prize ahead of time also lets your child knows what he/she is working towards. Simply earning stickers towards some amorphous prize is too vague for most children. They want to know what they are going to get out of working hard. Don't we all?
3) Identify how many stickers need to be saved up for the reward ahead of time.
Imagine that you received a paycheck but had no idea how much money you would need to buy something that you wanted to receive. There is no motivation if you have no idea what your currency will buy you. Children are the same way. If you want stickers to motivate your child, your child needs to know how many stickers are necessary to earn a prize. So once you have identified the prize, identify how many stickers are necessary to earn to get the prize.
4) Make the prizes achievable.
Sometimes what the child wants is something quite expensive, like an iPad or iPhone, and the parent decides that the child would need to earn 100 stickers to earn the prize. That type of reward will be difficult for a child to work towards because the prize will not be earned for a long time. Many times the stickers cease to have meaning if the prize is too distant or if too many stickers need to be earned in order to earn the prize. Imagine if you needed to save $300,000 to buy a house. Would you save every penny to do it knowing that you probably will not have that much money saved up for many years? Most people would continue to spend their money because every penny feels like just a drop in a very large bucket that needs to be filled. The same goes for children. Rewards must be achievable within a few days to a week or the child will stop working towards them and the stickers will cease to have any meaning. So choose small prizes.
5) Use meaningful rewards that the child wants to receive.
It seems obvious that the child needs to want to receive the reward or a sticker chart will not be effective, but many parents identify things that they think that their child wants as rewards, only to learn that they were wrong. I once gave my daughter the choice of two puzzles as a reward for earning 5 stickers. She looked at the puzzles and immediately began to howl, "But I don't want these prizes!" Clearly receiving a prize that she had no interest in was not a motivator for her. This is part of what led me to realize that I needed to identify the prize that she was working towards ahead of time.
6) Keep your child's eye on the prize.
Throughout my years of seeing clients, I often suggested that parents use a sticker chart in order to motivate a child to change his/her behavior. Many times parents have responded negatively to that suggestion or have told me that sticker charts don't work. But the data overwhelmingly indicates that sticker charts DO work to help a child to change his/her behavior. Obviously they do not work with every child, nor do they remove problematic child behavior altogether, but in general, they are effective for parenting...if you are using the correct method to implement them. The suggestions below are based on what I've learned from being a therapist and a parent.
At times I have heard parents say that they do not believe in sticker charts because children should just be intrinsically motivated to behave or because the parent "shouldn't have to" reward the child for something that the child is expected to do. I am not arguing that you give your child a sticker for every behavior. If your child goes to bed at night with no problems, you don't need to give your child a sticker for that behavior. But, if bedtime has become a battle for you, getting ready for bed with no difficulties may be a targeted behavior that should go on the sticker chart.
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