Throughout my years of seeing clients, I often suggested that parents use a sticker chart in order to motivate a child to change his or her behavior. Many times, parents have responded negatively to ...

Psychologists have warned that parents who use sticker charts to encourage their children's behaviour are potentially creating unhelpful and unmotivated adults, as they aren't learning to be helpful ...

Reward charts are a mainstay of modern parenting. Stickers are commonly used in order to tame toddlers, stop tantrums and encourage kids to eat up their food, tidy their rooms and work hard at school.

GIVING stickers as a reward is a common way for parents, and teachers, to get kids to help out around the house or do their homework. But an expert has claimed parents should ditch them entirely, as ...

My daughter started fifth grade this month with a wonderful new teacher and, to my delight, the absence of one of the most annoyingly ubiquitous “tools” in modern classrooms today: the behavior chart.

CHILDREN who are rewarded for good behaviour using a sticker chart could grow up with anti-social behavioural problems, claims a parenting expert. Millions of parents rely on exchanging a sticky star ...