Kenson Kids Kenson Kids "I Can Do It" Reward and Responsibility Chart, 11 X 15.5-Inch

I bought this for my 3/almost 4 year old daughter to work on some behaviours and encourage her helping around the house 1) Great quality - Lightweight but durable and larger than expected. The magnets keep it up on the fridge and the stars and tasks are a good size and hard plastic with velcro backing that really sticks. 2) Gread design - My daughter can't read yet, so the pictures are GREAT!! She can look at it and tell what each task is on her own without me having to explain it to her (as would be the case if it was written words only). I also love that you have blank ones that you can use to make ones specific to your needs. For example, we did a "be safe" one to work on her holding hands in parking lots, staying in eyesight, etc. 3)Really works!! She is now EXCITED to brush her teeth, clean up toys, and set the table etc. I set it up so that she can earn target gift coins for a certain number of stars, so she is also learning that if she wants a toy, book, movie she needs to earn it. If she sees something she wants when shopping, she knows that she needs to save her coins to get it and work hard on her tasks - asking mommy isn't enough. All in all, much better than I was expecting and totally worth it.

First, my only issue with this star chart is a small one: the mat is a bit thin so sometimes our toddler will accidentally pull it off the fridge when removing stars or roughly putting stars on. But in the product's defense...toddlers are tiny bulls in china shops, so there's only so much we can do without super gluing it to a wall. Other than that, I love this star chart! It gives our 4 year old concrete visual evidence of how her week is going and lays out the expectations/goals for the week. I also love that the stars are velcro. They stick well and allow us to remove stars if the little one throws a fit or doesn't listen after the stars have been done. We have been using this star chart for about two months and have seen great progress with our little one. I think having defined goals as opposed to just asking her to "be good" or "be nice" or "be helpful" makes things easier for her. We also spend time discussing her day and what she did well and what she can improve on the next day. It gives her the opportunity to celebrate little victories and to discuss undesirable behaviors and why we don't do those things (hitting, not listening, being rude, throwing fits, whining...) and encourage her to work on it for the next day. We allow her to tell us what reward she would like at the beginning of the week (within reason, of course) and we remind her of the goal she is working toward every night. I think this is teaching her how to work towards a goal and showing her that there are rewards for good behavior. She had to learn the hard way about not reaching her goal and about how really bad behavior (an epic meltdown with screaming and crying because she didn't want to go to bed) can lose stars that she's already earned, which I believe is helping her to understand consequences. She didn't quite understand what "losing a star" meant until I had her remove the star from the chart and give it back to me. I could see it click in her head and she got quiet and sad. Of course, we don't like to see that, but it's an important learning experience and once she understood, she turned things around and had a great next day. I want to say that she's not a bad kid. In fact, she a really sweet, exuberant child. But toddlers are tiny cave people and this is a great tool in helping to incentivize good behavior. If you're looking for a way to use positive reinforcement to guide your little one, I think this one is great. It also feels durable and I have no doubt we will be using it for a long time.

I was looking for a good quality star chart after several homemade ones ended up torn or forgotten. This one is perfect because the stars are reusable as well as the tasks which can be changed. The chart has been on our fridge for a couple months and doesn't look worn at all. It did not come with a dry erase marker which I think would be helpful for writing in rewards on the chart. The strategy of using a star chart for behavior was recommended to me by our family therapist and it has worked well with my 4 year old daughter. She will come get me to show me that she has cleaned her room all by herself just so she can have a star, it doesn't really matter what the big reward is, the stars are enough for her. We have used the chart in different ways, sometimes immediately receiving a star, sometimes waiting until the end of the day to evaluate behavior. I never take away stars that she has earned. We use it as a method to stop whining, share, and other appropriate actions, rather than a chore chart. Overall, very useful, versatile, product that achieves the results we were looking for.