Theo's school uses a "rainbow chart" for behavior. Every day, each child starts on green--a good day! If the child stays on green for 15 days, he moves to purple and earns extra privileges by virtue of being a "royal eagle." If the kiddo misbehaves, he moves down to yellow--a warning color. If the misbehavior continues, he moves to orange and loses part of recess. And so on. Perhaps not surprisingly, Theo spends a fair number of days on yellow, with the occasional move down to the dreaded orange. Lately, however, he had stayed on green for several days...until today. When I talked to him about it, though, he had a solution. "Well, Mom, do we have a shredder for Mrs. J's rainbow chart? Because I need to make a new chart for her, Mom. It will have just two colors: green and purple. That's all. No yellow, orange, red, or blue. Only green and purple. That's what I need to do, Mom."
As always, I have to admire his ingenuity. One can never move down into the yellow zone if yellow no longer exists. Clever boy...
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