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Should I pay my kids for good grades?
With report cards coming out, many parents wonder about whether they should pay their kids for good grades or not.
Paying kids for grades will eventually turn parents’ best intentions from reward into bribery because it changes the purpose for learning. Which is better: to learn for the love of learning OR to learn because we are going to be paid for it?
Learning is a relationship between the student, the teacher and the subject. Paying kids for grades changes the motivational nature of learning. When we pau kids for grades it now becomes a relationship between the student, the subject and the parents’ ideas about what the kid’s grades should be.
Bottom line: The love of learning can’t be bought.