The Good Behavior Store

So I have been telling you about our Behavior Bucks (BB) and that Sam can earn these with good behavior and by helping around the house. He also had to behave really well for the store to open. Today we opened the store and he had nearly earned all of the BB I had. He had been fined for bad behavior in the last few weeks, but after 3 nights in a row without fighting bed time I felt it was time to show him what he was behaving for.

 

As you can see we didn't do anything fancy, I have been hiding these in the trunk of my car and just pulled them out while he was eating dinner and priced them. I KNEW he had earned a lot so I priced the ones I thought he would want pretty high, but he surprised me.

 

We have been working on our counting and numbers so he actually recognized the number 5 an that the others were MUCH higher than that, so he decided that he would buy as many of those as he could!

 

 



I made him count out his money and pay (each bill I worth 1 as I didn't want to confuse him at only 4 years old) and he did great the first few times, when he chose to buy a few things over 10 BB he lost interest in counting in his excitement over his new toy.

 

 



Styling is new shades

 

 



Even though it was late by the time we finished I felt he needed time to whined down and play with his new toys. So we set up his Snakes and Ladders game and played. He actually won with no cheating and without me letting him, then he very sweetly asked told me that he as sorry that I lost. I haven't spoken much about it but Sam has been acting out like crazy in the last few months, and behaving poorly for the last year. It all changed after we moved. This little boy who told me he was sorry I lost is the first glimpse I've had of the Sam from before.