Clothes chart

Cale is to a age where he is fully capable of dressing himself, putting his socks on and putting his shoes on.  In the past few weeks though it's a huge battle-we are talking 30 minutes temper tantrums!  It's been exhausting.  We created a sticker chart a while back for behavior and listening so I decided to create another sticker chart for putting on clothes.  If he puts on his clothes, shoes and socks in the morning by himself with no whining or crying he gets a sticker.  Then if he puts on his underwear and PJs he gets a sticker.  If he gets 7 stickers he gets a prize.  Well the first few days went great.  Now it's like he doesn't even care.  Tonight he told Jeff he doesn't even want a sticker.  His prize right now is $2 to spend at the Dollar store on anything that he wants.  He was so excited when I first told him about his prize when we started this and now it's like he could care less.  So we go back to the drawing board-maybe a different type of prize-he does like food or candy-maybe he would do better with that.  It stinks sometimes being the parent when you think you have something figured out and then you realize that you really don't.  We will keep trying.  This is not the last battle we will have with him I am sure.  We will keep trying to come up with positive rewards for positive behaviors!  This parenting stuff is awesome, but so hard sometimes-wish you could just figure your kids out, have all the answers, and know the best way to handle your kiddos in every situation.  Then we would be in a perfect world, and to be honest, I wouldn't want that.  Parenting has grown me a lot in the past 4 years and while I am sure it will cause me some gray hairs as the boys continue to get older, I wouldn't trade it for the world.  I adore and love them so very much and the smiles, hugs, kisses, laughter far outweigh the battles!