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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We go out for dinner at the end of the year when there was solid evidence he worked hard.[/quote]

We do this too, but each marking period if straight-As, or if not, evidence of working butts off.  DC gets to pick the restaurant.[/quote]

My parents did this, but more tied to getting as best a grade as they thought each of us were capable of. My mom was really ahead of the curve on this (especially as a young mom) - she recognized that even though my sister wasn't given a diagnosis of dyslexia (even though now she 100% would be because the understanding of it in the 80s was BS- "do you see letters backwards?") she knew there was a very real hurdle in her head to learning the only way that schools were teaching at the time. She was plenty bright but struggled so hard with school. So she got to pick a restaurant for her grade that she worked her ass off for and I got to pick if they thought I wasn't slacking. They never told us the other kid's grades, it wasn't a big deal, we were just interested in which place the other kid picked (we went as a family) It was little but pretty motivating, or nice icing on the cake to be recognized I guess.[/quote]

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