Stickers, stories and sweets: using rewards to keep your child motivated to write
This article explores how parents can motivate children to keep writing without turning creativity into a chore. Many children start stories with excitement but quickly lose momentum because writing can feel difficult, frustrating, or overwhelming.
The article explains how small rewards such as sticker charts, treats, screen-time swaps, and celebrating milestones, can help children push through the challenging parts of the writing process. It emphasises the importance of rewarding consistency and effort, not just finished stories.
Most importantly, the article encourages parents to balance external rewards with intrinsic motivation by giving children choice, autonomy, and a supportive creative environment.
The core message: writing confidence grows through encouragement, consistency, and making storytelling feel joyful rather than stressful.
Stop procrastinating. Finish what you start.
One of my biggest problems as a writer is finishing what I’ve started. I always have lots of different ideas in my head at the same time, so I have a hard time committing to one project. Perhaps you’re like me and you have folders full of abandoned novels and short stories on your computer? Or […]
What You Seek Is Seeking You
Hello scribes! Welcome to the beautiful (and if you’re in Lagos, a very rainy) month of June! I hope the month has started on a great note for you. Can you believe we’re almost rounding up the first half of the year? Already! When they say time flies, it certainly is true. I recently got […]