Week one, the sticker chart is magic.

Your child is racing to the fridge, gold stars everywhere, doing the very thing that's been a battle for months. You think, finally, this is the one. Week two, nobody can find the chart. By week three you're the only person who remembers it exists, quietly awarding stars to a piece of paper no one looks at.

If your kitchen drawer is a graveyard of abandoned reward systems, sticker charts, token jars, pocket-money apps, laminated wall planners, you are not inconsistent and your child is not lazy. Reward charts stop working for children with ADHD for reaso...