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Quirky Kid developed Tickets as a playful behaviour-support resource designed to help parents and children work together around clear goals, positive reinforcement and shared rewards.
The resource uses a simple sequence: agree on an achievable goal, acknowledge the behaviour with a ticket, then allow the child to reveal a shared reward after collecting enough tickets.
Developed by child psychologist Dr Kimberley O’Brien, Tickets translated a familiar behavioural principle into a more engaging, child-friendly format that families could use at home.
Making positive reinforcement more concrete
Behaviour-support strategies can be difficult to use consistently when expectations and rewards are vague. Tickets was designed to make the process visible and predictable for both adults and children.
Each set includes scratch-to-reveal rewards based largely on shared parent-child experiences, such as baking together, going for ice cream or planning an outing.
The current Tickets product page continues to describe the resource as a cooperative tool for managing behaviour through goals, direct praise and positive shared experiences.
From clinic strategy to published resource
Tickets became part of Quirky Kid’s broader therapeutic publishing range alongside resources focused on emotions, communication, friendship and adolescent wellbeing.
Quirky Kid’s historical company record shows the resource being introduced to educators at Positive Schools conferences by 2012, indicating that it had already moved beyond home use into professional and education settings.
The resource was also later included within Quirky Kid’s bundled therapeutic resource range for parents and professionals.
Why the resource matters in Quirky Kid’s publishing history
Tickets reflects an important feature of Quirky Kid’s early publishing model: practical strategies used in psychology practice were redesigned as tangible resources that families and professionals could use independently.
Rather than functioning as a standalone advice sheet, Tickets turned behaviour support into a physical, interactive process involving children directly.
The launch sits within the same early publishing period as Face It, Tell Me a Story and Just Like When, helping establish Quirky Kid’s wider identity as both a psychology service and a developer of practical child-focused resources.
