Princess Swayzee and the Chart of Good Choices

Having a little brother can be so much fun… most of the time. Swayzee has loved being a big sister and she does a great job but sometimes Mikey just drives her crazy. He loves to get into her room and mess up all of her toys and books. He also loves to find the remote and change the channel when she is watching one of her favorite shows. He doesn’t know what he is doing but Swayz is sure that it is on purpose.
Swayz decided that she needed to take action and when mike would bug her she would bug him right back. The only problem with this is that she is a lot stronger then he is and he would end up crying. Shane and I tried many different things to see if we could help them get a long better but nothing really worked. Finally we came up with a good behavior chart. We call it Princess Swayzee and the Chart of Good Choices. We use stickers and reward her good choices. She can earn “grab bags” or toys lunch at Mcdonalds and at the end she gets a date with just Mom and Dad.
After about a month of earning stickers and then losing stickers she finally made it to DATE NIGHT. The little grandma (my Mom) watched Mikey and Shane and I took Swayz out for a night on the town. We took her out to eat and then headed up to the Gateway to the Discovery Kid Zone. We had a blast and Swayz loved all the attention. When we were finally ready to go home she was excited to see Mikey and tell him about her night. She is now on her second Chart of Good Choices and we have really noticed a difference in her behavior. She recognizes good and bad choices and she and Mikey are getting a long so much better!!