Jessica Lahey
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877 appearances
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first heard Dec 2017
last heard Apr 2021
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nominates an and sort of awards.
these this this title of National Schools of Character.
And you look at those schools and how they get kids to do the right thing for the right reasons.
There aren't a lot of sticker charts involved.
There's a lot of conversation about why we do these things, you know, the sort of know the right and do the right, that kind of idea.
If you want kids to be participating in the family dynamics and the family duties because that's simply the right thing we do, that's what we do for each other, then you have to have a lot of conversations about that.
When kids are super, super little, that's where you start it.
You say, Look, you know, you're part of this family and you eat food too, and mommy prepared the food or daddy prepared the food.
And so um the way it works in this house is that everybody helps clean up.
And that's sort of just part of
being a part of a family.
So yeah, I'm torn.
Um most parents I know are torn on them.
They seem to work in the short term, don't really work in the long term.
Um, there's a whole bunch of apps for school stuff that are based on these sort of sticker chart systems and I personally don't like them.
But again, am I just being a Pollyanna thinking that we can get kids
intrinsically motivated to do just about anything.
Um, and the way we do that is to not use extrinsic motivators.
You know, uh I have to look at that a lot and say, well, sometimes no.
Sometimes when a kid is really little and and they
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