Or would they be better motivated by something different? When kids have mastered a specific behavior, you can use the behavior chart to help them achieve the next level of whatever you are ...

You may have come across a color chart — like the EZ-Tuck ... use it regularly to help enforce the desired behavior. As kids get older, simple charts don’t tend to work quite as effectively.

It’s high time behavior charts themselves got moved down to “a bad color” and expelled from schools altogether. READ MORE: Column: 12 alternatives to timeouts when kids are at their worst I ...

From sticker charts to clip charts to color cards ... Some beg to get their good behavior marks back. For some of those kids, the systems might work in the short term. They want the rewards ...