The Chart
Will the Reward Chart Work? We'll know after 20 or so days....
Homework with Demetrius can simply be painful. He dawdles and he runs off and then if it gets to a point where you have to take something away, like, say, dessert - meltdown city. It’s even worse on days where he has therapy.
Tonight was that special occasion where you feel that at the end of the night you are just going to stare at the wall and contemplate that another day of this and we’ll know the real reasons the good lord taught the Irish and Scotch to make whiskey many moons ago.
I decided to take all the good advice and ideas out there in ‘autistic dad blog land’ and create a chart of rewards for Demetrius, that’s long to achieve but focused on homework. IF he does his home work without fits/crying/yelling/throwing things/telling Mommy he hates her - he gets a check off of one of the number boxes. After 20 checks, he can go to Chuck E. Cheese, then we do it again and we can get a DS game. Same with Maya. He’ll hopefully model better if he sees she’s in the same boat for her rewards (Gattitown/American Girl Outfit).
My hope is she doesn’t run away with this and he ends up frustrated, that he can keep up and hit the Chuck E. Cheese reward pretty quickly.
Kim and my reward? Not having to spend the moolah that would have gone to the rewards on the whiskey.
yikes, onto homework issues already, we hear you load and clear. third grade is a tough one, but from what i heard, the odd years are hard and loaded with homework, while the even years get off a bit easier, and i’ve heard that from more than one person. if we made it through third grade, i think anyone can. it will be painful, and filled with yelling. i hope the chart works and that d gets rewards quickly too