The Positive Jar

Do you have a strong willed child? This idea just might work for you and your kids. This past week one of my crafts was our “positive jar”. I have to admit, it is working fabulous. I have researched other “jars” that parent's use. I tweaked our jar to what fits our daughters the best.

    First we came up with the name together. I gave them two options and my oldest added another. We choose to go with the name; positive jar. We couldn't decide if we wanted to fill the jar up with gems or rainbow poms. Therefore we choose to use the gems and rainbow poms. The gems are for good behavior. For example,  picking up their toys without me repeating myself and etc. The rainbow poms are used for what are called, warm fuzzes. In other words, acts of kindness. I didn't want the positive jar just to be about behaving well and having good listening ears; I wanted it to also help with them getting along. For instance, if I see them playing nicely together with no fighting, I will sneak a warm fuzzy into their jar. Or if I hear them say something kind to one another. You get my drift? From there I came up with some rules for our daughters positive jar.

The positive jar rules.

1.)Teamwork. I only made one jar on purpose. Therefore they have to fill the jar up with teamwork.

2.)The jar can only by filled by good behavior, and warm fuzzes.

3.)I do NOT take them back out for repercussion

4.)Once the positive jar is full, they get a reward. 

Please excuse my non artistic paint writing. Wrong brush, oops!