When the child reaches a certain age, usually around four years old, he becomes able to understand that he sometimes has to wait before being rewarded for the efforts made . The Les Belles Combines General Store is the perfect tool to help your child achieve this kind of learning, as he will indeed have to learn to work but only receive a reward for his efforts once a week. This skill will be useful to him all his life, both in his personal life and at school, where he will only receive his diploma at the end of his studies, or at work, where he will only be paid once every two weeks.
If you're having trouble finding reasons to award tokens to children and reward hard work , here are a few:
Housework
Of course, it is important to teach children that the collaboration of everyone within the family organization is essential for the proper functioning on a daily basis and that each task carried out does not therefore always deserve to be remunerated. However, in order to motivate your young and old to carry out household chores with a positive attitude and independently , don't hesitate to give them a few tokens for certain tasks, especially those that require more effort.
good behavior
If your child has difficulty playing harmoniously with others or if he has a bad habit of settling his conflicts aggressively, you can offer him tokens each time he manages to make the necessary efforts to adopt the expected behaviors for a certain period of time . Moreover, the more your child will be rewarded for his good moves, the more he will be inclined to repeat the desired behaviors!
Acts of autonomy
Does your child surprise you by doing their entire morning routine on their own or by taking the initiative to set the table without you asking? Take this perfect opportunity to grant him tokens that will concretely reward his growing autonomy !
As you can see, any occasion where your child has to put in the effort is a good reason to award them tokens to use in the General Store. Not only will this allow him to increase his motivation to carry out his tasks, to adopt the expected behaviors and to develop his autonomy , but the wait necessary to obtain his reward will allow him to learn quietly to postpone the effort of the pleasure !
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