Mickey Money

Recently on Pinterest I found a great idea for Sophie.  The original project link is below.  I changed ours up a little bit to fit our needs and the attitude of Sophie. 

http://lifesprinkledwithglitter.blogspot.com/2012/03/coin-chart-behavioral-finance-chart-for.html

Here is a pic of Sophie with her Mickey Money chart.  We have a terrible problem with this little monster of screaming.  About everything.  She needs milk, she can't get the bathroom door open, Henry took her toy, she is hungry, she screams.  All the time.  We really wanted to do something to stop this as soon as possible.  So, I took the idea from the website above and came up with the Mickey Money chart.  Across the top of the chart is her "money".  Pictures of each character from Mickey Mouse that she loves.  I laminated each pic for durability purposes and then made a "pocket" for them to fit into.  The pockets are just another piece of laminated  paper with sticky blocks on the back to stick to the page of tag board.  I added some other fun pics of Mickey and his friends along the one side and then drew 5 squares across and 6 squares down for her stickers.  She earns a sticker if she has all her Mickey Money at bed time every night.  But, if she screams (or does anything else not nice) she loses one Money and has to give it to Mom.  I put it in my own pocket on the fridge for safe keeping until she either earns it back by being nice or the day ends and we start over fresh the next day. 

Once she receives 5 stickers in a row, she will earn a special prize.  We haven't decided yet exactly what this special prize will be as we figure we have a little time to do the thinking on that yet!!  ;)  Actually, she is doing quite well and we will probably have to figure this out sooner rather than later.  Losing Mickey Money is quickly becoming no fun.  We give her one warning before she loses any, but that is it.  No multiple warnings, that seems to be the key for us.  Praise for being good is quickly becoming her favorite time of the day.  Even if she is not earning back her money, we have started praising her for no screaming and whining very often.  Hopefully, it continues to work and I can post a new pic of her with her first special prize!