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[quote=Anonymous]I think that sometimes providing an extrinsic motivation for something a person has little intrinsic motivation to perform can be a useful thing.

I would never pay my child to read, because she is an avid, hungry, almost incessant reader. Introducing an extrinsic "reward" for reading would move her intrinsic focus.  We don't even complete the "What I Read This Week" list for school, which I also feel would be a distraction for her.

BUT, I do reward my daughter for doing her homework, especially now practicing her spelling and handwriting (which she HATES to do).  In her case, she earns TV time.  I told her she can earn UNLIMITED TV time--it's just dependent on whether she does X to get 30 minutes of Y.  Guess what?  It works.  She gets her practice in, she improves, the thing she's practicing gets less and less onerous as she gets better and better at it, she gets a boatload of praise for enduring and persevering with something that is challenging for her, and she earns TV, which is a major motivator.  AND she doesn't watch hours and hours of TV.  Maybe 4 hours total over the whole week.  Win-win!!![/quote]

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