Deluxe Wooden Magnetic Responsibility Chart with 90 Magnets

My son is 3 and has been doing "chores" for a while, he picks up after himself, he puts his toys away, his laundry in the basket and on occasions helps "do dishes" and "vaccuums". Anyways, I thought this was a cute way to talk to him about responsibilities and days of the week. However, I think it's turned me into a slave driver b/c it makes him SO HAPPY to earn a "badge" for each thing he does. No Like: The list of responsibilities are vast, but not really in line with what I want him to do now (i mean he's 3!!) So we've made up our own. There are only a couple of blank ones. I think if I was crafty and motivated I would make my own with strips of magnets and my label maker. However I'm not that motivated at this stage. Why this is rad: 1) My son gets GIDDY at the idea of earning badges, and the more badges he earns, the happier he is (mind you, there is no reward tied to how many badges he earns) - he just likes saying that he did (fed the dogs, put laundry away, brushed his teeth) 2) It's a great bribery tool, "baby, you won't get a badge if you don't brush your teeth" 3) It lets him know how good/bad he's been, and he tells me "i want to behave!" Ha! 4) He gets excited about helping out around the house and wanting to do it all on his own (vacuuming, putting his dishes in the sink). I'm not sure how long this will last (so far 6 months and it's still working out), but for now, it's fantastic. It's minimized tantrums (oh, you want to flip out and be carried the next 3 miles, well, I'm taking 4 badges away if you're going to act like this). It's allowed me to give him the opportunity to do things "on his own" and we've created some fun tasks to do together. Like making waffles (he stirs all the ingredients and cracks the egg). I love Mellisa and Doug products b/c they're durable, they're "old school" feeling, and always an educational experience. Really great return on my investment.

Go it for my Granddaughter. Great task manager to help develop personal responsibilities. My daughter joked it’s an app for this. I’m a bit old school.

We used this for homework. With a 9 year old, 4 year old (now five) and 3 year old. We didn't need it for the oldest but the 4 year old was going to start getting homework for the first time and we needed to start teaching the three year old things like her letters. At first the three year old wasn't that interested in learning letters. Then we put this up using the two blank ones to write their names and said they'd get a token when they did their homework each day. The three year old has gone from being uninterested in letters to knowing the entire alphabet, capital and lower case, and is starting to learn to read words now. It helped with the four year old, too. He sits down and gets his homework done because he wants his "token". At this point we hardly do much with it; we occasionally take them places and say it's "because they got all their tokens", but it doesn't seem to matter much whether they get anything or not. If you ask, "Do you want to get your token?", they want to go pick out their color and put it up. It helped immensely getting them motivated. When the other two get home from school the three year old will run to get me to "do her letters". It may seem pretty simple but it works! I like that it's a good positive reinforcement. As far as the product, it's built very sturdy, too. I think the only issue I can come up with, which isn't much of one, is that it's hard to squeeze all the magnets on the white board if you aren't using a bunch of different chore ones. That's not a big problem, though. We just use the bottom part of the chart to hold the overflow. I love this chart and I think we'll find new ways to use it as the kids get older.

Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant!!! I wished I knew about this a year ago. My son and nephew have benefited a ton with this( age 5.5 & 6 yrs) . I wish I had started this at age 4

Firstly, it arrived earlier than stated, Bonus! Secondly, once we set it up and showed it to our little boy he showed masses of enthusiasm for it, there is a first! We have tried alsorts but this seems to be the only reward chart that has had an instant effect, we picked the Please and Thank you magnet first last night, and explained what he needed to do to get a smiley face, after that it's been please and thank you ever since. Brilliant! And well made and packafged to boot!

Le compré este tablero a mi hija para que se motivara a realizar algunas actividades en la casa y resultó muy bien, la calidad del tablero es muy buena, de madera resistente, solo que la cinta que tiene para colgar a la pared es bastante delgada, pero el tablero nos gustó mucho, las fichas con magnéticas.

Good purchase! The responsibility chart worked well for my son

Avevo preso questa lavagnetta per mio figlio che ha quasi 4 anni ed è un po' indisciplinato. L'idea di mettere le calamite in corrispondenza di ciò che fa bene, gli è molto piaciuta. Ogni giorno a fine giornata facciamo il punto della situazione e mettiamo le calamite verdi o rosse a seconda che abbia fatto o no un certo compito a lui assegnato (in realtà sulle calamite ci sono delle frasi in inglese che corrispondono a quanto bene hai fatto una cosa ma a mio figlio interessa di più il colore e lo focalizza di più rispetto ad una frase). A fine settimana se le calamite verdi sono più di quelle rosse c'è un piccolo premio. Bè, il suo comportamento è molto migliorato in pochissimo tempo. Ogni giorno fa le cose a lui assegnate e poi mi chiede di mettere la calamita verde. E' stato talmente un successo, che ho già preso un'altra lavagnetta anche per la mia bimba più piccola.