Promote Success with Recognition and Rewards

As harried parents know, life is generally filled with more demands than there are hours in a day to meet. Given a family’s long list of daily activities and goals, parents who want both themselves and their children to be more organized and accountable can benefit from a helpful selection of tools by The Homework Caddy, Creative Changes, Prosperity4Kids and The Reward Chain.

These products enable parents to easily communicate with their kids about the importance of responsibility when it comes to activities like tracking homework assignments, performing household chores and saving money. In addition, these achievement aids reinforce positive behaviors by rewarding children for jobs well done. They are a great way to teach important lessons that will have long-term impact.

The Homework Caddy Earns an A+ for Organization

According to inventor Buki Kodra, a mother of three, her house was filled with “an ever-growing pile of homework, school papers, library books, forms, schedules and projects on the kitchen counter, dining room table and fridge door.” That led her to invent The Homework Caddy, which helps kids organize their schoolwork so that their books, papers and projects are neatly stored in a central location.

Measuring 28 inches wide and 36 inches tall, The Homework Caddy is a clutter buster that hangs on the back of most doors and keeps things tidy. It comes with a combination magnetic dry erase board-calendar, legal size file pockets for folders, plastic supply pockets for pencils, scissors and glue and a large center display window in which either lunch menus or schedules can be displayed. Velcro straps at the bottom can hold either rolled posters or display boards. Available in four attractive styles, The Homework Caddy is made of durable material designed to last for years, turning otherwise unused space into a useful workstation.

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Creative Changes Charts Kids’ Accomplishments

Household chores for children are an integral part of family life and a great way for young ones to learn good life habits. But keeping kids motivated once they realize that work is not as much fun as play can pose a parental challenge. Chores can suddenly become more manageable if a little creativity and praise is part of the task! Creative Changes transforms what many children might think is a negative into a positive by offering fun and colorful motivational and organizational job charts and stickers that can be used to assign responsibilities.

The charts include a child’s job chart, a homework chart and a blank create-a-chart for whatever purpose seems best. The wipe-off surfaces clean up easily to promote reuse. In addition, self-adhering, static cling stickers designed like rainbows, smiley faces and hearts can be used on the charts to reward kids for a job well done. Regardless of the chore assigned, Creative Changes helps make certain that no task goes unknown, undone or unrecognized.

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Prosperity4Kids Banks on Teaching the Value of Money

Prosperity4Kids encourages young people to think critically about good money habits early in life, dispelling the belief that these kinds of lessons should be introduced to them only once they become teenagers. The company’s products have been heralded by Parents magazine as the “Best Bank for Kids” and credited by the Associated Press for “Teaching Kids Dollars and Sense!”

Prosperity4Kids’ products include the popular Money Mama the Smarter Piggy Bank. Shaped like a mother pig and her three piggies, this bank gets kids to think about wealth building with four separate slots and compartments, so they learn the 10/10/10/70 concept that will enable them to better secure their financial future: 10% for charity, 10% for fortune, 10% for the future and 70% for everyday expenses. To complement this little piggy, the Money Mama & The Three Little Pigs children’s book includes beautiful illustrations of adorable characters that help bring the savings strategies for abundant money management to life with child-friendly explanations.

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The Reward Chain Links Good Works and Recognition

When kids have successfully organized their homework, completed their chores and saved for the future, parents can recognize and reward their accomplishments with The Reward Chain. Starting with a single paper link that can be easily hung from a door, the Reward Chain can be extended as children demonstrate good behavior. When the chain reaches the floor, they can be rewarded with a special treat they will have earned.

Invented by a mother of four young children as a way to discipline in a positive manner, each link contains self-esteem building messages such as “Super Kid” and “Hip, Hip, Hooray” to further motivate kids to do their best. Each Reward Chain set contains enough links to construct two chains, which the product’s slogan calls the “link between positive parenting and great kids.”

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