Reward charts are a mainstay of modern parenting. Stickers are commonly used in order to tame toddlers, stop tantrums and encourage kids to eat up their food, tidy their rooms and work hard at school.

Here are five hacks to effectively use a sticker chart to improve your child's behaviour. While a sticker chart won’t completely eliminate undesirable child behaviour, they are effective – if you use ...

After working with thousands of families over my years as a family psychologist, I’ve found that one of the most common predicaments parents face is how to get kids to do what they’re asked. And one ...

You’ve heard this common advice: If you want your child to do something, set up a reward system. Give her a sticker or a point every time she does it. If she gets a certain number of them, she can ...

Psychologists have warned that parents who use sticker charts to encourage their children's behaviour are potentially creating unhelpful and unmotivated adults, as they aren't learning to be helpful ...

This post is in response to What’s Wrong With Sticker Charts and Reward Systems? By Eileen Kennedy-Moore Ph.D. Last week, 9-year-old James came into my office beaming. It was the first time I had met ...