https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:49:35 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/responsibilityreward-charts-did-the-novelty-wear-off#post-2724852 Sun, 16 Apr 2017 13:37:18 +0000 delight 2724852@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a sticker chart for our DD for night time sleep and the novelty hasn't worn off. She gets to put a sticker on if if she stays in bed and doesn't call us upstairs for rediculous things (like dropping blankie on floor and pulling covers up). She also has to not wake up super early. We found that after her baby brother was born in November, her amazing sleep skills went down the drain. I also hated to keep going upstairs for silly reasons because it often resulted in waking the baby up due to our horribly squeaky floors. So far the novelty has not worn off. She gets to pick a prize after accumulating 10 stickers. I usually give her a choice of a few prizes such as a book, a craft or a box of smarties. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/responsibilityreward-charts-did-the-novelty-wear-off#post-2724490 Fri, 14 Apr 2017 17:33:44 +0000 SweetiePie 2724490@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LBee: yeah I think the prize at the end is key. I'm thinking a food item each day for a full day of stickers and a toy car or something after a full week of stickers. </p> <p>I am thinking though that it might be best to use it just for the potty at first. So he isn't prized-out. The potty is our biggest hurtle because he's over 2.5 and will barely sit on it let alone try anything. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/responsibilityreward-charts-did-the-novelty-wear-off#post-2724470 Fri, 14 Apr 2017 16:01:07 +0000 LBee 2724470@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jape14: Just seeing this, been super busy obsessing about dressers 😂</p> <p>DS lasted about 2 weeks with stickers before he stopped caring. Our mistake was that the stickers never led to anything, they were just a yay. I think because stickers stopped being a scarce resource (school was conditioning all the kids with stickers too and he had unlimited access at our nanny share) he started to feel like they weren't anything to do extraordinary behavior for anymore. I will say we use an M&amp;M for staying in bed until his light turns green (feel free to judge) and it has lasted months. So I believe he can be incentivized. </p> <p>Similar to above PP, the stickers lasted long enough to address the behavior needed (crying at drop off), but when we tried them for another one when he was older he was pretty meh about it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/responsibilityreward-charts-did-the-novelty-wear-off#post-2724440 Fri, 14 Apr 2017 14:06:47 +0000 erinbaderin 2724440@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used a sticker chart pretty successfully for staying in bed at night and for using the potty. I found that the novelty wore off but by the time it happened the habits were pretty set - so he stopped asking for stickers but kept using the potty. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/responsibilityreward-charts-did-the-novelty-wear-off#post-2724434 Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:54:24 +0000 looch 2724434@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had the chart up on the wall for like 2 years before it inspired my son to even look at it. We recently used for about 2 weeks to get his morning routine down for school. He was having a hard time getting his stuff together and wanted to do anything but get ready, so the chart helped him to understand the order of operations.</p> <p>Now, it's a display piece again, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/responsibilityreward-charts-did-the-novelty-wear-off#post-2724403 Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:06:40 +0000 bookwormmama 2724403@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son does not really care about stickers, so it would wear off pretty quickly for him, BUT we did use a sticker chart for potty training and it was successful. </p> <p>We did something very similar to what you are doing with the reward. He decided he really wanted a truck from Cars as his big prize, but we didn't have any of the characters, so I bought the pack of characters that Target sells (I think there were like 10-12 cars in the pack). I made the chart so that every 5 times he went on the potty he got a car. He also got an m&amp;m every time he went. He needed the extra incentives because m&amp;ms and stickers were not exciting enough for him, but the chart was a great visual for him because he could see he only needed to go x amount of times more to get a car.</p> <p>Maybe you can do a small treat type reward at the end of the day if he gets all the stars, and if he fills in his stars for the whole week he gets a small toy (or a trip the ice cream shop or some other special place if you don't want more toys)? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/responsibilityreward-charts-did-the-novelty-wear-off#post-2724387 Fri, 14 Apr 2017 12:37:07 +0000 KT326 2724387@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The novelty wore off for my son after a couple weeks. He just didn't care about the reward. We give him lots of praise when he does stuff. That seems to work more than the charts ever did. </p> <p>As for potty training, what ultimately worked for us was using gummy bears when he went. One for pee, two to three for poop. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/responsibilityreward-charts-did-the-novelty-wear-off#post-2724383 Fri, 14 Apr 2017 12:30:32 +0000 jape14 2724383@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have been doing a sticker chart for sleep ("stay in my own bed all night" and "no crying/yelling") with my 2.5 year old DS for about 5 weeks and the novelty has not worn off yet. He gets a sticker on the chart/hand stamps every day, and 5 days of stickers = a prize from the "prize bucket" (a bunch of random crap from the Target dollar section, basically). He is a big-time rule follower and goal-oriented (as goal-oriented as a 2.5 year old can be) so I think that helps. We haven't headed down the potty training road yet, but I will definitely try it when the time comes.</p> <p>Paging @LBee: because I know her DS got sticker fatigue. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/responsibilityreward-charts-did-the-novelty-wear-off#post-2724364 Fri, 14 Apr 2017 11:47:04 +0000 SweetiePie 2724364@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yesterday at TJ Maxx I saw a Melissa &amp; Doug responsibility chart. It was like $15 so it felt like a no brainer. DS is 2.5+ and the repeating (and newly talking back) when we ask him to do something is getting to be hella annoying. </p> <p>So anyway I introduced it this morning and he is so excited for it. He's gladly done 3 things without a fight because he wanted the stars (brush teeth, get dressed, put toys away). And he is so excited to put the magnetic star there and cheers for himself and proudly tells his dad he got another star.<br /> I told him when he completes all of the stars for one day he gets a treat. Maybe I'll move it to weekly. IDK, I'm new at this. :happy: </p> <p>But...wondering when the novelty will wear off. If it will wear off. </p> <p>My next plan is to do a potty chart and do star stickers for going on the potty. So thinking this is a good introduction to the concept but wonder if he'll get bored with it and the novelty won't stick for the potty. </p>