Ethan and I have been butting heads a lot lately. I know that it has all to do with the lack of attention. Ethan and I have always had a special bond and lately I feel that it isn't as strong as it once was. So he has been acting out a lot. Anytime I am feeding Emma, or holding her, he needed something. Juice, snack, go potty you name it he wants it. He also doesn't listen when I tell him he needs to be quiet because "the baby is sleeping", or he runs around and does what ever he can to get all the negative attention that he can. Well, I had enough. I couldn't take it anymore. Our relationship turned into me just yelling at him all the time or sending him to his room. Until a couple of days ago....
I started a Star Report for Ethan. I took a piece of construction paper and wrote Ethan's Star Report on the top. In the middle I wrote somethings that if he does them he gets a star taken away. - getting a time out, being sent to his room, being told not to do something more than once- At the bottom of the page is 5 stars. Every time he does one of these things I take away a star.
It really seems to work well. There is a dramatic change in the way that he is listening and behaving. I tell him to not do something or I will take away a star and he stops. It is nice having my Ethan back and I can stop yelling at him all the time. The other day he went to bed and he still had all 5 stars.
Oh, just a little side note. The other day Ethan and I were at the grocery store and he pointed to this little girl in the cart in front of us and told me that he loved her and that she was cute!! It was so darn cute and funny!!
