Saving for a Car

Not that Jonathan is not toilet trained. He is perfectly fine without diapers in school the whole day and during nap time. However, he insisted to put on a diaper at home. We figured out that with a diaper on, it means that he gets undisrupted playtime. With a diaper on, he doesn't have to stop whatever he's doing, just to attend to Nature's call. We tried all kinds of ways to get him off diaper at home but failed.

This evening, he was frustrated that Matthew refused to let him play with his toy car. Seizing the opportunity, I offered him a choice. If he goes without diaper, we can save the money and buy him a toy car ride of his choice.

the coveted toy car ride

He thought for a moment and then agreed to be diaperless from now. I devised a saving plan and each day he does without diaper, he gets a sticker. I showed him the available toy car rides and he picked a choice of his own. Since the toy cost $40, I got him to commit 20 days of diaper free ($2 of saving per day) and after fulfilling the chart, he gets the toy.

the saving plan

With this saving plan, I get him to go without diaper and hopefully he gets accustom to it. He learns to be patient and we get to do addition together.

working on his own

Today's Day 1 and he was pretty enthusiastic about the saving plan. He even went on to work on his number writing quietly by himself. Crossing my fingers this plan will work ;)