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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How about you teach your kids to be intrinsically motivated, and to experience the connection between working hard and doing well? 
Ridiculous to pay a kid $500 for grades.  WTH??[/quote]

Doesn't basically every adult employed outside the home get financially rewarded for doing so? Many jobs also give performance bonuses. Nothe sure why this is such a strange concept.[/quote]

The reward they get for good grades is opprtunity. The opportunity to go to the college of their choice. The opportunity to pursue their chosen interest. The opportunity to get a good job and have a nice life. They should be able to understand this. They aren’t working for you. They are working for themselves.[/quote]
For many of us, who don't have "chosen interests", the opportunity is not of any value. Money are the only value, thus being paid for grades, getting merit scholarship and getting salary with bonuses are the motivators. I don't what I want to do when I grow up, in a meantime I prefer to be paid.[/quote]

Sounds as if you are setting your kids up for a delightfully middling existence. [/quote]
I can't "set" kid up for any kind of existence, it's their job. I am happy with my middling existence. [/quote]

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