I paid my son to run for student council

[Anonymous]

Good for you - sometimes we know what's best for our kids and we have to push them to get there!

[Anonymous]

Pay him to get into Harvard! lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Way to teach him the value of intrinsic motivation. Good luck when he is living in your basement as an adult.

I don't know. I pay my kids to get good grades. A's are worth more than B's. The deal is he pays me if he was to ever get a D or F. He's never had to pay. Right now, school is his job. I get paid for my work. His motivation is money. If OPs son's motivation is money, she used it to her son's benefit. NBD.

Are you going to continue this all throughout college, grad school?

[Anonymous]

It is weird to pay your son to do an extracurricular activity. That is why you were judged by your friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why did you want him to run? At every high school that I have seen, the student council is pretty much useless, anyway.

This has been our experience too. I asked my kids if they'd like to run for a student council office and they just laughed. They said the only reason kids do so is to put it on the college app.

[Anonymous]

You seem like a real douche, OP.

I think the true harm is that your kid doesn't have specific interests that he needs to be bribed as a teenager into doing something.

That's just sad.

[Anonymous]

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/why-you-shouldnt-pay-children-for-grades/?_r=0

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What was the offer? Did he counter at all?

Bump.

[Anonymous]

Lame

[Anonymous]

The only people upset by this are parents whose kids have lost student council or parents who find it impossible for their kid to even attempt student council.

Would paying an unadventurous kid $10 to try sashimi be a big deal? Yeah you lost $10, but now the kid loves sushi.

[Anonymous]

Troll post. Or at least I hope so!!! ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Way to teach him the value of intrinsic motivation. Good luck when he is living in your basement as an adult.

I don't know. I pay my kids to get good grades. A's are worth more than B's. The deal is he pays me if he was to ever get a D or F. He's never had to pay. Right now, school is his job. I get paid for my work. His motivation is money. If OPs son's motivation is money, she used it to her son's benefit. NBD.

Is a C a wash?

[Anonymous]

Another mom on my daughter's soccer team pays her DD $50 a goal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Way to teach him the value of intrinsic motivation. Good luck when he is living in your basement as an adult.

I don't know. I pay my kids to get good grades. A's are worth more than B's. The deal is he pays me if he was to ever get a D or F. He's never had to pay. Right now, school is his job. I get paid for my work. His motivation is money. If OPs son's motivation is money, she used it to her son's benefit. NBD.

Are you going to continue this all throughout college, grad school?

Money shoudl never be motivation for doing your best. That just teaches kids that money is the only thing worth working for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Troll post. Or at least I hope so!!! ?

Nope. Why does it bother you?