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Dear TJ,
I’m so proud of you. Your sticker chart is working! We’ve been using a sticker reward chart to keep track of when you let Mommy and Daddy sleep until 7:30 each morning. It took a little getting used to, because you thought you literally had to wake us up at 7:30 in order to get a sticker. Daddy told me you were in tears one day because it was 7:34 and you thought you weren’t getting a sticker. Once he explained that you could wake us up any time after 7:30, you started doing much better!
You’ve gotten your sticker every morning this week. You got two stickers this morning for letting me sleep until 8:30! So instead of getting a toy from Target tomorrow for getting five stickers, you get to pick out a super special toy from Toys R Us for getting seven stickers! Congratulations!
Every morning, we leave out a small bowl of Cinnamon Life and a cup of water for you. You eat it like a big boy and watch some Noggin until it’s time to wake us up. It works really well! I wish you would sleep a little longer because you can get pretty cranky as it gets closer to bedtime, but this is a good compromise for now!
Love,
Mommy
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Hmmm. . . this has me thinking that I should let my oldest try this one morning. Of course he will just sit and watch television without doing the breakfast thing, but I never get to sleep late.
Here is my Dear Kid Saturday: http://www.theangelforever.com/?p=1449
Just posted a new Dear Kid! Under the Sea w/ Peanut! http://peanutsprout.blogspot.com/2009/08/under-sea-with-peanut.html
Great idea. Very.
Mike
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[…] We started using them with TJ at age 3 because he was getting out of bed so early. By offering him stickers as a reward for staying in bed later, we were able to change his behavior so that he wasn’t getting up with the sun every day. […]