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

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.

Works great. Nothing but positive things to say.We have a 7 yr old son with Adhd and sensory processing disorder. Getting him to do a simple task is stressful. We’ve tried making all different types of reward charts but they had very little appeal to him. But then I found this.Pros1. It is very colorful so that is catches his attention2. The pieces are just right size for him to handle3. Great adhesions but to not to difficult for my son to pull off and replace the stars4. Comes with plenty of different choices for routines, chores and tasks . Basically had everyone that need and ones that we didn’t know that we needed5. The picture are colorful, fun, age appropriate and descriptive so my son knows what task is6. Just the right size for a refrigerator or door without overtaking the area.I can’t say enough

I really enjoy this behavior chart. It comes with the perfect amount beginner behavior badges. I like how there are other types of chores/behavior tags you can customize to your liking and what your child needs to work on. The chart itself is pretty sturdy and the velcro on both the chart and chore tags work very well. I would most definitely recommend this to anyone who is trying to get their children to learn a reward/behavior schedule.

I looked at (and bought) a couple of different chore charts for my preschool aged kids, and this is the one I like the best. For non-reading (and early reading) kids, it is the best because the chores have pictures as well as words. I wasn't sure if I'd like the velcro as well as the magnets on other charts, but it works really well. Easy enough for the kids to pull the stars off, but strong enough to stay on until they do. And it has provided them a way to learn responsibility and to help out around the house. It has made doing chores more fun.My biggest complaint is that there aren't enough kinds of chores. At least half of the ones provided are behavioral things, not actual chores, while a lot of the basic chores you'd expect for kids to do aren't included, such as "clean room" "dust" "vacuum" "empty dishwasher" "sweep" "do homework" "empty trash" "clean bathroom" etc. Fortunately, the chart came with a few extra/empty squares, and being relatively computer savvy, I downloaded some clipart pics of the things that were missing, bought some sticky-back printing paper, and made my own. But I really wish they'd have made a lot more chores for this set and left the behavioral ones out. They already make a behvioral set you can buy separately, so why not keep them together and make room for more chores?The behavioral ones they do include can be pretty hard to monitor, too. For example, "Use nice words." I guess you could be on the lookout all day long for them to use nice words --or not use nice words, to take the star away--but too many of the behavioral ones seem both unnecessary and too ambiguous to really nail down if the child is doing it or properly avoiding it.I also wish they had used a much stronger grade of magnet for the back of the charts. They barely stay on our fridge. If you try to pull off a chore or a star, the whole chart comes off the fridge.But overall, this was the best one out there. If you're willing to take a few minutes to make the extra chores that the set should include, it can work really well for motivating kids. My kids love to take off the chores every week and divvy up the new ones, they love to count their stars and earn their allowance. It really is a great concept for a chore chart, just not as well executed as it could be.