The Behavior Chart

I couldn't decide if I wanted to blog about this or not, but since this is a record of my memories and Samuel's childhood, here goes.  

Samuel has had some trouble with aggression at school.  After exhausting all of our ideas for punishments, we talked to his teacher and came up with a daily behavior chart to track his behaviors during the day.  It divided his day into 5 segments and he could earn a smiley face for each of those segments.  If he had 3 of 5 smiley faces and NO hitting or biting, he could put a sticker on his chart at home.  

These were the incident reports we were trying to avoid.

When he got the sticker on his chart, he could draw a prize from his prize bag(as assortment of toys and books with the occasional bigger treat.) This was one of the days he didn't get to draw from the bag. Casey had gone to get a special boat from Toys R Us and he really wanted it.

We ended the school year with all 3 days of smiley faces!  Phew!