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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are you doing that? [/quote]

To quantify and reinforce the importance of working hard in school. [/quote]

Why not just teach them intrinsic motivation? I never got below a B+ in any class (and can count on 1 hand the number of B+’s I received). My parents never once paid me for good grades. [/quote]

+1. My parents paid me nothing for good grades, and I still got better grades than the kids whose parents bribed them.  I can see how wanting to motivate your kids comes from a good place, though it makes me wonder what happens when the kids are older and haven’t learned intrinsic motivation. [/quote]

OP here. So weird that everyone sees this as a bribe. Speaks volumes to the fragile relationship that most of you apparently have with your own kids. As I type this, my 15 year old daughter is in her upstairs bedroom installing R-49 batt insulation in the ceiling by herself after having helped demolish the previous ceiling and bag the old blown-in insulation. She is measuring, cutting, and stapling with no hand-holding whatsoever. Last weekend she worked with DH to run new electric, install recessed can lighting, a junction box for a ceiling fan, and configure interconnected hardwired smoke detectors as part of our upstairs renovation.

She’s not complaining or pushing back and happily agreed to do this for free…but we’re giving her $$$ anyway, because we would have paid a contractor an arm and a leg to do a worse job than we’re doing ourselves. The experience is valuable and empowering for both our kids. Everyone in our family is a contributor and we’ve turned this into somewhat of a construction camp for them. But I suppose all the DCs in the DMV area have the intrinsic motivation to renovate their own homes? [/quote]

Why are you paying her to be a contributing member of the family team? When we all painted out entire house this year, the kids didn’t get paid. 
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