Over a year ago, a friend of mine mentioned a reward system that they used in their home involving poker chips and an empty icing tub. In an effort to encourage good behavior, we decided to try something similar. Last fall was our first try and it was a tremendous success. We originally had two jars, one for Rosemary and one for Ben, but that just created competition so we condensed to one. Our kids get poker chips added to the jar for various things…obeying right away, having a great attitude when it’s easy to have a bad one, helping a sibling…really any kind of behavior that we want to see repeated. The only rules are that they don’t get a chip if they ask for it and that they can’t lose chips. Chips are only rewards, we don’t take them out as a consequence for bad behavior. Well, in the fall when their jars were full, we took them to Chuck E. Cheese. This time, they decided that they wanted to go bowling as their reward.
Amazingly, it ended up that we chose to go bowling on National Bowling Day. The kids were already going to get to bowl for free, and Jonathan and I ended up bowling one game for free as well, we just had to pay for the second game and our shoes.
Even Charlotte bowled. Her little bowling shoes were super cute.
Rosemary threw the ball on her own. She did really well. We had the bumpers up, but for a first timer she threw pretty straight.
Ben got a little help with the ramp too. Originally he was throwing his ball, but it took SO long to reach the pins.
We were there a while so we had dinner at the bowling alley. The kids had a blast and so did we.
They tell us that they want to go rollerskating for their next trip. I’ll take pictures. Jonathan can handle that trip. :-) I would end up in the emergency room.
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