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March 30, 2006
Less Stress Motivation
Less-Stress Motivation
Games! We use this system where I calculate their over all ‘grade’ for the week. I average all their written work and come up with a percentage. That percentage corresponds to an amount of ‘tickets’ on my chart:
100 - 95% = 6 tickets
94 - 88% = 5 tickets
87 - 82% = 4 tickets
81 - 75% = 3 tickets
Each ticket then is good for 1 hour of computer games, Playstation, or choosing a video to watch. We call it “electronic game time”. That’s it for the following week. When the tickets are gone, then no more games, movies, etc. Besides motivation, it’s also great for limiting the amount of time your children spend sitting and vegging out at the tv/computer!*
Extra activites: My ds enjoys going to play floor hockey which dh and his friends play on one late night each week. If he doesn't get at least “4 tickets” then he doesn’t get to go to hockey. This could be used for any outside activity your dc like to do.
Remember: These tickets are for motivation to get their work done properly. Not a punishment for not being a ‘smart’ child. I feel that this schedule of ‘tickets’ works out perfectly for my dc since they are more ‘average’ than ‘above average’ students. Ds usually gets to go to hockey, but has never gotten 6 tickets to spend the following week! That’s just not him. Just motivate them to do “their best” work…not necessarily to be the best.
This is what we do for motivation. It works for us. It may not work for you, but something similar might. Good luck!
~Betsy
*edit: We only allow the use of up to 2 tickets on each of Monday, Wednesday or Friday. Sometimes ds has an abundance of tickets in his possession of which we allow him to "sell" back to us for $1 each. He REALLY likes this part!
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March 30, 2006 - Cool idea
As to your question on my blog about whether or not it would be helpful to spend with maintaining weight loss to spend less time on the computer blogging and more time doing something active like jogging...I don't think so:) I mean, think of the calories your fingers are burning as you type and click furiously and then there are the brain calories as you read, think, imagine...I am thinking blogging should count as exercise! My brain is just one big muscle:)
Congrats too on losing 85 pounds! That is awesoime! Why does eating yummy food have to be soooo bad for us?