The nice thing about this level system is it's more for us to keep things consistent. So when difficult child is having a good day, he does move up, but not to the top right away. Although our list was designed for our kids(video games in room are easy to get to), the levels make the things they really want something hopefully worth behaving for. This system is used on both easy child, and difficult child in our home. It saves the arguments of why can easy child do this, and I can't? As well as showing you have had a good day, so you're going up a level, if you continue to do so, you go up another level. It takes a lot of the work off our hands. Best example, *Mom, can I go to the library?* just point at the level chart posted, and there is the yes or no. The main thing to avoid is making sure this doesn't get moved up or down for tasks. difficult child tried at the start to yell and scream at us, got dropped down to level 1, then bargain on *I'll do this for a level!* The level system in our house is behavior based. If he decideds to help us while we're working on something, and has a good attitude, he can move up.
