Interesting!

Livi is finding the reality of the beads in the basket rather different to how she expected. My conclusion at the moment is that she has never been on the recieving end of having to take anything out of the basket at school as she is the archetypal "good girl" away from the family.

Today, having discussed what the criteria for taking beads out and putting them in and agreeing the terms before starting the day, she rather quickly had to take out a couple of beads. She was shocked, to put it midly! We ended the day on less than 20 beads and she was not happy. We talked about what had happened and she admitted she could see a pattern of behaviour. We talked about how she felt when it was happening and tried out different ways of speaking and words to use.

I think it will take a while but although today was hard, tomorrow is another day and another chance. She will never urn out of chances while she is living with me, which gives her plenty of time to crack this. I think we have a chance of doing it!