Dominic and I have always been very bad about making Lenny go to sleep in his own bed. As many of you may know, Lenny falls asleep on the couch watching a Thomas movie. We (usually Dominic) later take him up to his bed after he is asleep. We have done this for a very very long time. One of our house rules is to "go to sleep at bedtime in your bed". Lenny and I reviewed the house rules, chores, and chart. Then I asked him if he thought they were good rules. He said yes. And believe it or not, we started the chart 10 days ago and every night he has gone to sleep in his bed at bedtime with no arguments. It has been wonderful. I tell him every night and morning how proud I am of him for doing that.
If he starts to do something that he's not supposed to and I have already warned him once, I tell him that I will take a coin away. He doesn't like to lose a coin so he usually listens right away. Sometimes he even reminds me that I need to take a coin away from him because he didn't listen. He has also been very good about completing his chores.
I love this new plan! Now, if I could just get Brooke and Nathan to follow the rules too. Hmm.
Here are some pictures from the last week or so.
The Bug Box
We visited The Bug Box in Fredericksburg one day last week. The kids had fun looking at all of the bugs through the magnifying glasses.
Lenny and Mikie putting together a puzzle.
Here is Nathan, Zachary, and Brooke.
My friend Tracy took this great picture of Nathan. I love it! Thanks Tracy.
Here's one of Brooke too.
Curtis Lake Park
We love this park. They have a great playground and really cool trails. Lenny and his friend Pearson were rolling a log along the trail.
Odds and Ends
Remember me mentioning our little Linus in the past with his blankie? Nathan takes it everywhere. Even in the sandbox. And yes, the binky is back. :-(
Nathan decided that he was ready to clean up his toys but Brookie was in the box. It didn't stop Nathan from cleaning up anyway.
One last ball and he is finally finished.
And then of course, he wanted to get covered up. So Lenny, Brooke and I covered up Nathan.
4 comments:
I love the charts - I so need to do that too for my kids. Have you ever read the book "The Berenstain Bears Forget their Manners"? It's a great book and they have a list in there that I told them we need to do. Brennan keeps reminding me - and now your post has inspired me. I'll have to add that to my list of things to do this holiday weekend :-) As always the pics are adorable. That bug place looks cool!
I like the coin idea. We have a Thomas sticker chart in our house but lately he hasn't been striving very hard to earn more stickers. Perhaps it is time to change my reward/punishment system because Time-outs don't seem to be working either. I love that you included him in making the rules and then give him a choice of what to earn. Are you sure you weren't a school teacher? You're great at this!!!!
The picture of Brooke in the toy box was adorable. I really like your new toy room and found it to be very bright and cheery with all the windows in that room.
Great idea...I think I'm going to borrow some of the same thinking for around here. Great pics!!!
I love the coin idea!! I may have to steal that from you. When we used the charts for Brendan he really did well with them, and lately, we have kind of fallen off the map with it. Our biggest challenge is getting him in bed at a decent time of night. Maybe with the beginning of Kindergarten next week this would be a good time to start. I'm stealing this for sure! Do you use real coins?
Look at Brookie and Nate in that box, TOO FUNNY!!
We should meet at the Pumpkin Patch this year, let me know if you're interested. :-) Brendan talked about visiting Lenny all the time.
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