Behavior Chart

Strangely, Ben has started asking to have a behavior chart at home like the one at school, with Blue, Green, Yellow and Red. "Red," he explained, "will mean I have to go to my room. But not the others. Just red," he added quickly. He brought it up first yesterday, and then again today (to ask if I'd had time to go get the construction paper to make it, which I had not).

I am not sure what his motivation is for wanting the chart but my suspicion is that he wants to use it as leverage to get rewards for good behavior. Yesterday he was helpful and polite bordering on bizarre at dinner, saying "please" and "thank you" at every opportunity and even inventing some opportunities to show off his good manners such as "Would you mind please passing the ketchup? Thank you," when the ketchup was right in front of him. He also insisted on setting and clearing the table, bringing Joel and I drinks, etc. I feel as though it must not have been coincidental timing with the whole mention of wanting a behavior chart at home.

So I am wondering if I should go with it, and make him the chart and be thankful that my boy is so eager for discipline, or if this is just going to end up like potty training, when I somehow wound up having to give him a hot wheels car every time he pooped.