Last week, I shared with you all about the Successful Day of the Level System. Today, I will be explaining the Successful Week. Once we had set up the system for days, it was fairly easy to add the weeks.
Before we begin a new week, we decide on a reward that our dear one will be earning with his success that week. We usually choose a free to low-priced reward. Remembering that this will hopefully be once a week, and that we are going to want to top ourselves a little when he reaches the next level; we don’t want to empty it all on one week’s success. (Our boy’s options for Level 2 are a gaming system or year pass to a preferred fun place. Obviously, this is not something we could afford to do often, so we have smaller rewards that fit a week of success better. He has been working toward this for a long time and looks forward to it a lot!)
For a Successful Week’s reward, we have gone on outings, had special treats, enjoyed movie nights, gone to a park… the options are almost endless, depending on what motivates him at the time and what we want to allow him to earn. The only really important thing when choosing a reward is that we want him to want it! If he isn’t interested in what we are offering, then trying to earn it literally won’t be “worth it” to him.
After we have chosen a reward, we start signing off one day at a time toward a Successful Week. When our dear one reaches seven signatures, we deliver that week’s reward! We heartily congratulate him and let him know how proud we are of his behavior. We make sure that everybody remembers that this is a big deal to him and to our family!
We record Successful Weeks in the same place that we record his Successful Days. This is so that we can all easily reference how close he is at the end of each Successful Week to reaching his New Level.
Next week, I will talk about what happens when our dear one has earned enough Successful Weeks to apply for his goal level! I hope that if you try this,, your hand is getting tired from writing signatures by the time that comes around!
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