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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it’s great to reward your kids for having a great year but I would reconsider tying it explicitly to A’s.  I saw so many of my peers struggle to live up to parental expectations even when they were tying their hardest.  A lot of things may hinge on their grades but those things don’t need to include your approval.[/quote]

I agree with this.  We did it.  I don't remember how much, but we gave some money reward each year if they got all As.  I have three kids and two of them got the reward year after year but for one, as he got older, as the difficulty of classes increased, the kid probably worked much harder than in MS (frankly, all As in middle school isn't all that hard) and I think this focus on grades just added to the anxiety.

It would have been fine if we had one kid, but at some point, it became a contrast-- one kid got all As, the other didn't (third was in college at this point) (But the Bs were classes such as AP calculus an AP Chem).  We worked it out, but it would have been easier if we'd tied it to something less rigid-- "I know you worked your butt of this year, so ___(reward)___."   Also, if I were to do it again, I'd do something slightly different each year (maybe different timing or different reward or different explanation for reward) so that if you pivot in another direction based on kid's needs, it isn't so obvious.[/quote]

What school allowed your child to take AP calculus and AP chemistry in middle school? That’s impressive![/quote]

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