As some of you know, we’ve been having a very hard time with Conlee and her sleep habits. She’s waking up at 5:00 am and is ready to get out of bed. So, before Christmas, I told her if she’d stay in bed and lay quietly until Mommy came to get her in the mornings – Santa would bring her a dolly house. Worked like a charm…that is until December 26 when she had the dang dolly house.
Since then I’ve tried to bribe her with other things; threaten to take away things – you name it – I’ve tried it.
Then it hit me – I was trying to parent my 2 year old the way I do my 4 year old. It obviously wasn’t working. What motivates a 2 year old – stickers! So we made a sleep chart.
This morning Con successfully completed her chart!
I’d promised a “surprise” and I TOTALLY forgot about it all day at work. So tonight the kids (yes Crawford was a big help in as the motivator) asked where her surprise was. Thank goodness that after Halloween I’d picked up a costume at WM that I hadn’t given her.
She LOVED it! Wore it all night and cried when she had to take it off for bath! She’s a hoot.
Of course, Crawford immediately wanted a chart of his own (this kid’s no dummy – charts = presents). So we made a handwriting chart for him. He immediately did 3 pages of his Spiderman book so he could get 3 stickers!
Here’s a BIG thank you to the power of Tinker Bell stickers!
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