Fishing season is over!!!!

On September 5th, I posted about trying a new behavior plan. The girls would put their names on fish for doing good things and each night we would pull out a fish and that person's fish got to swim in the pond. That was 6 weeks ago, so we should have had about 42 fish in the pond with 6 weekly winners who got to go to the dollar bin at Target. Below is how our pond looked last night........a total of 7 fish. It's not that the girls have not been showing good behavior. It was my fault.........I would forget to tell them to get a fish, Macy couldn't write her name, we would run out of time at night to pull from the envelope of daily fish, etc. Yesterday while at JoAnn's I decided Fishing season was over and bought glass jars and marbles to try a new reward system.

Our pond last night

The pond September 5th---not much has changed!!!!

The FISH plan seems to be working at Hannah's school----she was Fisher of the Week a few weeks ago!!!!

My friend Kimberlee, took the Fish idea and decided to use marbles to make a program for her girls. So now I am taking her idea of marbles and making some changes to suit our family. Each girl has a jar they need to fill. They can earn marbles for good behavior....last night they each got 5 for being good at Costco. I am going to start with them being able to loose them for poor choices, but may change to the idea that once you earn it you can't loose it. We talked about what they would like for a reward and they decided they would like to go to Snapperz---it is an inside bounce house and game place in town. This time we are going to try to get rewarded once all 3 have reached the top. Hannah commented that it was kind of like teamwork since they would need to work together to get their prize. Not sure how that will work!!!! Hopefully, they will all be great and get their jars filled about the same time. We may have to go to individual, smaller rewards in the future.

I think this idea will work better because they can easily put their own marbles in---we did talk about if I see them put extra marbles in, they have to start back at zero!!! They can also see how the other girls are doing and try to stay with them. So far we had a successful trip to Costco, Kaylee was awesome about cleaning up the kitchen before bed, and Hannah got ready for school in record time with almost no reminders to stay focused!!!!!

However, I did just need to threaten taking away a marble from Kaylee and Macy because they were arguing...............they stopped right away!!!!!

Life is Good when you haven't lost your marbles!!!!