Is It Useful to Reward Children with Toys?

In order to encourage some meaningful behaviors of children, many parents will reward them with various gifts. However, it should be noted that the reward is to praise the children’s behavior, rather than purely to meet the needs of the children. So don’t buy some flashy gifts. This will only make the children deliberately do some good things for these gifts in the future, which is not conducive to the formation of correct values for the children. According to some research reports, children under the age of five usually want to get some interesting toys because they only have play in the world. And wooden toys are very suitable as one of the gifts to reward children. So what criteria should children use to judge that they have done the right thing and can get some toys they want?

Use Color Cards to Record Your Behavior Every Day

Parents can make an appointment with their children. If the children make the right behaviors during the day, they can get a green card. On the contrary, if they do something wrong on a certain day, they will get a red card. After a week, parents can calculate the number of cards obtained with their children. If the number of green cards exceeds the number of red cards, they can get some small gifts as rewards. They can choose wooden toy trains, play plastic toy airplanes or play wooden puzzles.

In addition to setting up some reward mechanisms at home, schools can also form a mutual supervision relationship with parents. For example, teachers can issue award balls in the class, and each ball has a number. If the children perform well in class or complete the homework on time, the teacher can selectively give them different numbers of balls. Teachers can count the number of balls the children get every month, and then give feedback to the parents based on the clauses. At this time, parents can prepare a small wooden doll or bath toy, and even arrange a time to play with the children, which will help the children to form a correct concept.

Some children are reluctant to answer questions in class because of their shy personality. In this case, if the teacher forces them to answer questions, these children may hate learning from now on. Therefore, in order to encourage these children to have their own ideas, we can set up a plastic basket in the classroom and place the questions asked in class in the basket, and then let the children freely take those with questions from the basket. A note and put it back in the basket after writing the answer. Teachers can score based on the answers on the paper and then give the children some material rewards like some small wooden pull toys or plastic train track.

Rewarding children with small gifts is a very positive thing. Parents can educate their children from this perspective.