Brad's listening Chart

Lately Randy and I have been struggling with Brad. He has been a real stinker about listening to direction. He first has to try the “Why do I have to do that?” tactic… then the “I don’t want to do that!” tactic… then the full on “defiant” tactic. I am sure this is all pretty normal 4 year old behavior, however for the safety of Bradley and this household we decided to make a chart and bypass the lashings and latrine duty.

As you can see we started yesterday and he got a big black X. He hated that black X. Today he made a complete 180. He got a BIG star before he went to bed.

We promised him that if he earned 30 stars before the end of October we would throw him a big Halloween bash.

Cross your fingers and hope you get an invitation to Brad’s Halloween party and not a letter from Brad with a boarding school postmark.