The K.I.N.D. System
By: Carrie Brown
-A system to
establish and maintain a healthy state of kindness in the Brown home.
Keep It Nice Dude
Note: This is not a system of rewards, but a mere system of amiable
citizenship in a family. Your rewards are the ability to feel good about
yourself by acting kind to others. Also,
by being kind, you will be able to
continue enjoy normal privileges in your daily life.
·
Each
brother will start each day with 3 K.I.N.D. points. The goal is to keep all of those points
during the day, and if you lose some points, the goal is to earn them back.
·
If
you are unkind to your brother or parent, you will get docked one kind point
per infraction.
·
The
loss of one point during a day will be a stern and official warning.
·
The
loss of two points will be the loss of a greatly desired privilege until the
two points are earned back. At that point the brother will regain the lost
desired privilege.
·
The
loss of three points will result in a 24 hour period(1 full day) loss of a
favorite privilege or pass time, but you can still earn kindness points for
good measure.
·
You
can earn back kind points by being kind to your parent or brother. You can also
earn fast service kind points by serving your brother or parent by bestowing on
them a selfless act.
·
Certain
extreme infractions will be considered a 3 point loss such as:
Hitting, kicking or physically hurting your brother in any way that is
not an accident. Other large acts are yet to be defined in this category but
will be left to the subjection of the parents.
Keep it Nice Dudes!
Remember, nice dudes are happy dudes.
Love, Mom
The K.I.N.D System
Journal
By: Carrie Brown
The purpose of the K.I.N.D. System is to promote
the desired behavior of your child. In
this case the desired behavior is being kind to others. So in order to promote
this behavior, your child needs to be able to identify and define behaviors
that are not kind, and behaviors that are kind. We should not assume that our
kids instinctively know this. We have to teach them. This is the whole purpose of the K.I.N.D.
journal.
· In each child’s journal the parent
needs to clearly state the rules of the system. This can be as easy as printing
it out and attaching it to the back of the cover of the notebook.
· The first entry should happen right
after you explain the rules of the system. Each child should write out the date
and their top five privileges and pass times for that date. You will need to do
this every couple of weeks because this variable constantly changes, and
certain things become more important or less important to your child.
· The child should date each day. And
write in 3 points on that date.
· Every time your child gets a point
deducted he/she needs to write -1 and explain how they lost that point.
· Also, as each point gets earned back,
the child must write down how he earned back the point.
· If you child has a 3 point
infraction, of course have them write down what they did, but also the time of
day it occurred, because this starts the 24 hour process of loss of privileges.
· Also, have children write down any
points earned back by fast service and selfless acts.