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[quote=Anonymous][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, [b]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.
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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]

your bs-ing has gone too far[/quote]

Truly depressing for you and your family that you think this must be BS.[/quote]

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