March 26, 2012

bucket

This is a bucket:
A friend of mine gave me this idea to stop a child from having a bad habit.  So we started last wednesday with Lily.  Our goal was to get her to stop sucking her fingers.  I took her to the dollar store and let her pick out some lame toys and some candy to fill the bucket.  She was so excited. 
The first day, we let her pick something out of the bucket for every hour she went without sucking her fingers.   She did perfectly.  We then extended the time to 3 hours.  She has now gone 5 days without sucking her fingers.  This one bucket has been wonderful and I am so glad it has worked so far.