How Do You Use Behavior Charts At Home?
Behavior charts can be used for a variety of reasons at home. They can be used to help children remember to complete daily tasks, or they can be used to modify inappropriate and disruptive behaviors. When used properly, behavior charts can be a great tool to help your child feel accomplished and rewarded. It’s important to remember a few key points before you begin to use one. Start small. It may be that your child has several behaviors that you would like to extinguish or many chores he doesn’t complete to your satisfaction, but in order to be successful, you need to choose one or two major issues to tackle first. Behavior charts are only successful if a child is given the opportunity to succeed–choosing too many target behaviors can set him up to fail. Identify both the behavior you are trying to modify and the behavior with which your child needs to replace it. List these behaviors in simple-to-understand, plain language either on the bottom of the chart or on a piece of paper near
