Positive Reinforcement & Co-Ed Competition in Youth Groups

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Hello, I am Jeff Trentham, the children’s pastor here at Calvary Church and I am coming to you on behalf of Expert Village just to give you some insight as to how to keep kids’ attention. Another thing that we use is the balloons, it is a technique that just keeps the kids’ attention up here and make sure that they are focusing because if it gets loud or if they disobey any rules then we will pop a balloon. If the girls get their three balloons popped during the service then the prizes go to the boys and the boys get double prizes that week. If the boys get their three balloons popped for disobeying the rules, the same thing, the girls get double prizes and double surfboards. We use surfboards as a positive reinforcement, if on their way out if they were really good then they get surfboards, if they did not get any balloons popped then they get surfboards. And basically what you do is with surfboards you get to spend them on the last Sunday of the month, we have our surf shack that is open and they can spend surfboards and buy all kinds of items or whatever we have back there, it is just a big store back there for them and it is really neat. And I have a few here, this is an example here of one, but we call this the short board which is worth one surfboard. This is another surfboard, this is one that is called the fish board and it is worth ten surfboards. So it is kind of like a ten-dollar bill, you have got a one dollar, a five dollar, a ten dollar, a twenty dollar. These are just different surfboards that we pass out depending on whatever the situation is whether it might be a birthday; we might give away a twenty dollar one and things like that. These are positive reinforcements that we use to keep the kids’ attention.

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