- Helps me to focus on improving my behavior.
- Happier interactions with my parents (carers, grandparents, siblings…)
- Teaches me the importance of delayed gratification.
- Teaches me the importance of working toward a goal.
- I can demonstrate my growing need for independence because it’s my choice to behave in a way that will get me to my reward.
- Along the way I have the opportunity to learn that there are “rewards” within myself that I didn’t know about – “intrinsic motivations” that will hold me in good stead throughout my life.
- It makes me proud of myself when I achieve my reward.
