My daughter has a sticker chart on the fridge that says, in her seven-year-old mix of capital and lower-case letters, “I was nice in the morning and controlled my anger!” The exclamation mark is dotted with a star.

Then there are ten hand-drawn squares, with shiny stickers in several of them. If all goes well, she’ll pick out a Playmobil at the corner toy store downtown, as a reward, in less than a week

This was all her idea. She saw a sticker chart of her brother’s and wanted a vehicle for scoring a new toy, too.

When I asked what she would do to earn a sticker, she didn’t hesitate. After countless talks and family meetings, she knows her early morning attitude problem is one of her biggest hurdles.

Read the rest of my post here, at Imp3Rfect Mom, the blog my friend, Jan Udlock.

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