Testimonials

Give Me Five Testimonials

 Martin and Julie P SA
“For over a year it took up to 2 hrs for our 3 year old daughter to go to sleep, she wouldn’t let us leave her bedside, we tried every so called ‘technique in the book’   Fortunately we came across the ‘Give Me Five’ reward chart.  We followed the instructions and after 3 nights our daughter goes to sleep within 5 minutes and all by herself.  Thank you Teresa.”
 

 

Simone Brown - Sydney Super Nanny Feb ‘08   “As an Early Childhood Consultant, I intend on using the rewards chart with families who are having difficulties managing their child’s behaviour. The concept is simple, and empowers the child to make choices with positive outcomes. Above all, parents and children can work together towards success.’

 

 Jane Hunt  Speech Pathologist  Busselton WA 12.5.07
'A fantastic resource whose presentation grabs the attention of the children! I have used this very successfully to train children with a short attention span in one goal for a couple of minutes as part of their speech therapy. It has also been extremely useful to recommend to parents to use as an tool to motivate children to regularly participate in home practice over a week, with reported great results!'
 

 

Michelle de la Perrelle   Speech Pathologist SA Oct '07

"I have found Give Me Five useful for a range of things. When used as a reinforcement chart the children enjoyed working towards their chosen reward.I have also used it to assist children to count the syllables and the sounds in words. The children find that they can touch the fingers as they count the sounds and syllables and then can go back and write on the fingers with a whiteboard marker the letter that they know that corresponds to the sound. This then transfers to them using their own hand to help them work out how to spell words. These skills are called phonological awareness and are the precursors to reading and spelling." 

 

 

Louise W. Feb ‘07
Give Me Five is the best positive reinforcement chart I have come across!  The boys are very excited about it!  It helped Alex (4) to eat his tea by himself without complaining (even his most hated tea...tuna mornay!)  and everyone in the family got to eat ice-cream! (Reward picture) Samuel (3) learnt to go the toilet by himself and we all got to go to the zoo together. I am looking forward to seeing what other products you come up with.”

 Kymette Dixon - Director   Waikerie Children's Centre, SA 24.9.07  
 “Because children’s learning is 75% visual and children with additional needs require their learning to be 95% visual, using the Give Me Five resource is a wonderfully effective visual strategy for developing positive learning outcomes for children.
Enabling children to see their success in a task with Give Me Five brings literacy, numeracy and wellbeing together at home and at childcare/preschool.
I would recommend Give Me Five for those who value good routines, success, co-operation and harmony in their learning environment.”

 Sally – 3 year old daughter – sleeping in own bed, not calling out, giving up dummy.
Give Me Five helped my daughter to stay in her bed without calling out and without her dummy. She went to bed and was good! Successful result.
 Allison – 3 year old son – eating breakfast
I liked not being the ‘bad guy’. We established the rules together which meant it wasn’t my fault if he did not get a star or couldn’t have the reward. All breakfasts eaten!
 Jan – 4 year old son – look at parents and paying attention when being spoken to, packing away belongings.
Give Me Five’s simplicity is its appeal. The excitement and interest comes from the whole family’s involvement and support! Give Me Five was great! It works and it reinforces what was expected. Easily achieved. (He was also very impressed with his success)
 Deanne – 5 year old son
The two best things about Give Me Five: - Five is very achievable, and a lot of rewards are quality time events for kids and parents.
 Kirsti – 6 year old daughter – putting dishes away, being ready for school in time.
Give Me Five really encourages children to remember certain tasks.Successful result.
 

Tina – 8 year old daughter – unpacking school bag, setting table
We loved Give Me Five! I love the concept for all age groups.
I wish I had it when I was toilet training all 3!  Successful result.

 Tricia –Special Education Teacher
Give me Five would be useful particularly for children with learning and behavioural difficulties.I believe First Time Success is imperative, so that the child knows what it feels like to succeed and hence can be referred back to in future.

Rainbow Week Testimonials

 

Sue Bryson Speech Pathologist SA 31.7.07       “The Rainbow Week has transformed my son’s (2 ½ years old) behaviour. He loves the clear, bright pictures on his calendar that represent the people, places and activities that are current. His separation anxiety at child care has greatly diminished, as now he can see what to expect during the week. This tool has really developed his sense of security and his self esteem, along with his language and concept skills. I would recommend the Rainbow Week to the parents of any child who would benefit from being able to see how their week unfolds.”   

 

 

 Louise-Adelaide Mum with 3 boys aged 4 and under. Moved to New Zealand-Dec ‘06
“Thank you Tiptoe! Rainbow Week has been fantastic! We recently moved overseas so our life has been very unsettled and routines all over the place. Thanks to Rainbow Week though, the transition for the boys has been much smoother.  It was fantastic the last week at home so that the boys knew what we were doing and what day we were going on the plane. We have been using it in our new home which has been really helpful for them to learn what to expect in their week now and what days they go to Kindy.

 

 

Michelle de la Perrelle Speech Pathologist SA Oct 07     "I have tried the Rainbow Week calendar for a recount with a little girl with a language disorder and was amazed at her skills.  Without the calendar she used short sentences and was not linking the events – but once we put the picture cues on the calendar she used joining words and more complex grammar that we had not seen."

 

 

Jo -7 year old son "We have a 7 year old child with special needs and have found the Rainbow Week calendar useful. Our child has problems with speaking, reading and writing and the calendar is a good visual aid to learn the days of the week, their sequence and daily/upcoming events."

 

 

Jo - 6 year old daughter "As Chloe likes to copy us (her parents) we use our (Rainbow Week) calendar daily to keep organized."

 

 

Karen – 8 year old daughter  "I was very impressed with the concept of adding in the separated parents (in Parent Booklet)."

 

 

Jan - 4 year old son and 8 year old daughter  "Reed has loved this and has used it daily. It’s going to help clarify yesterday and tomorrow. He puts the magnets on with instructions “Today is Monday and we are going to the playground on Wednesday, that’s the day after tomorrow.   Both children were really interested in Rainbow Week. I think it’s a great tool for making the kids aware of both commitments and fun plans that the family has."

 

 

Leah – 5 year old son  "I am looking forward to Samuel using the (Rainbow Week calendar). He is interested in the idea, learning the days of the week, learning to read and is always asking “when is…etc"

 

 

Natalie (Junior Primary teacher)– 2 and a half year old daughter  "The first week we planned the whole week. We found that it was a little bit confusing so the following week we set one day at a time. This worked much better. We set the following day just before Georgia went to bed so she knew what was happening the next day." 

 

 

Sandra- 7 year old daughter and 4 year old son  "I think it is a good thing to use and spend time with your children so they know what they are going to be doing during the week." 

 

 

Kerry – 5 year old daughter "We also used cut outs from the paper and put them on using the blank magnets e.g. Christmas Pageant." 

 

 

Sally -2 and a half year old daughter  "She loves the whole thing! Sophie has enjoyed placing magnets after the event rather than before e.g. we had ice-cream at the beach on Tuesday evening, the ice-cream (picture) went onto the wheel Wednesday while we were having breaky.   Great idea! As she grows older I can imagine the planned use coming into play more and more." 

 

 

Louise (preschool teacher) – 3 year old daughter   "Because the concept of time is such a huge one for children to grasp, that takes years to understand, I think it will be very valuable for a long time.  We put a picture of Daddy on the line between Saturday and Sunday so she now knows that’s the days that he stays home to play with her!  She’s also noticing the regularity of some events e.g. she said “that stays on there all the time, doesn’t it?” pointing to the magnet representing Kindergym that we left on Tuesday." 

 

Briony (psychologist) - 5 year old son.  "(Rainbow Week) gives them a sense of ‘control’ and ‘influence’ over the structure of their week –very empowering. There’s also a sense of accomplishment in recognizing the days of the week.  He (also) gets a real sense of accomplishment from moving the arrow forward each morning and also from adding the new picture magnets."

 

 

Kate NSW  “We love Rainbow Week!  Jonathan (age 5) has Aspergers and had some problems with concepts like yesterday, today, this afternoon, tomorrow etc.  Within an hour of putting it on the fridge, he could recite the days of the week and could tell me what he was doing tomorrow and what he did yesterday.  He loves being able to see his week and what's on and often comes up to fix things if they are wrong or have changed. We have recommended it to friends with kids with similar problems.”