Parents, particularly those of young children, have used behavior charts to motivate their kids for years, and kids do tend to respond positively to them — at least in the short-term.

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There is also a dark side to these behavior management systems. For the kid who doesn’t earn the stickers, clips down instead of up, or never climbs above the yellow card, these charts can be ...

Similarly, when parents compensate children for good behavior, they are introducing market norms into family life, a setting in which social norms traditionally reign.

Behavior charts can help with potty training, bedtime routines, mealtimes, and more. Next, decide on the ultimate reward that your kid will earn when they achieve a certain number of stickers.

I have tried a chore chart. Cutely decorated and color-coded. Tiny adorable clothespins with chores named in tiny adorable block letters on their sides. Ribbons for those clothespins to hang ...

Fellow parent David Martin’s daughter was in kindergarten when she was first exposed to a color chart. For the first few days she stayed on the “good colors,” but still found herself ...