Let NASCAR help you motivate your children!

Sometimes you just have to take the road, or the blog, less travelled.
If you and your children enjoy watching NASCAR Racing on TV together, and you are also searching for better ways to discipline and motivate them, here’s an entirely new and fun route to go.
Create a NASCAR Racing Behavioral Chart. Hang it where your children can reach it and watch them compete to see who can do all their chores and win the race and the reward you set.
The game and the chart are do-it-yourself and totally customizable to your own household. Every child can be a winner every day or every week.
You can see a sample chart on The Houseparent Network at: http://www.houseparent.net/RacingBehavioralChart.htm The Houseparent Network is a one stop resource for houseparents and other residential childcare workers.
Here is how the game chart works: Each day every child starts on the Lead Lap. If a child commits an offense (i.e. didn’t clean their room, didn’t do their chore properly, was out of bounds, failed to follow an instruction, etc.) they would move their car to Lap Down. The 2nd offense of the day they moved it again to “On Pit Road”, 3rd to “In The Garage”, and finally to DNF which stands for “Did Not Finish”
If a child stays on the lead lap for 5 consecutive days, he or she receives a special reward – a trip to the ice cream store, extra allowance, more time on Gameboy? Whatever you decide.
For complete directions on how to make a chart and create this game for your children, visit: http://www.houseparent.net/RacingBehavioralChart.htm
Try it in your home. See if it puts you in the driver’s seat – teaching your children everyday responsibilities while making them feel like winners at the same time!