CTR

Well our Christian boy is getting all grown up, he is 4 1/2 and we love him. But he still is naughty at times and the whole time out thing is not so much working any more for him or us. We decided to take a different, more positive stance. It all came about when our next door neighbor let Christian ride her bike with training wheels. It was love at first ride! After that Christian was not interested in riding his trike, he would ask permission if he could go over an ride her bike instead. He followed every instruction and was so obedient. One day he rode that bike for an hour and a half! Of course I was thinking well we are going to have to get this boy a bike for his birthday. But Dan felt like instead of being a gift it should be something he earned, so he doesn't feel like just because he has a birthday he gets anything and everything he wants. We came up with the idea of creating a CTR chart. Christian needed to earn 10 stars for 2 weeks for a total of 140 stars. He earned his stars by choosing the right which could include, listening and obeying, sharing, doing what he's told the first time, making his bed, eating his dinner, etc. We took this kid to Walmart and showed him all the bikes he could choose from, he tried all of them but kept gravitating to the bright green jeep bike. He rode it for a good 20 minutes int he store. We then said, okay say good bye to your bike. The kid was thoroughly motivated! And the next two weeks really were magical. He really did do great, sure he had his moments of naughtiness and when those happened we would take a star off the chart and put it in time out, and he had to earn it back. Then we would talk about why we choose the right and how it makes us happy and when we don't choose the right it makes us sad. Seriously the best thing ever, I think we may do another chart because it worked so well and we were all a lot more happy! I'm proud of the kid, he earned that bike :)


Of course the day we went to go get the bike after he earned it was pouring rain, so we let him ride it around the house to it cleared up.


Christian with his completed chart, all 140 stars!


Us at Walmart when we initially picked out the bike


Finally the rain stopped, it was freezing but he had to go out!