QOTW: Rewards for good grades?
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QOTW: Rewards for good grades?
| Mon, 12-10-2007 - 8:54am |




Question of The Week...
Do you reward for grades?
Why or why not?
If you do--what kind of rewards do you give?
Share your thoughts on the topic!

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We celebrate good grades. When ds brought home straight A's this time, we let him invite 2 friends to dinner anywhere he wanted. He chose Quaker Steak & Lube -- yuck-- but they had a great time! :)
If I felt a financial reward would be a good incentive for him, I would probably offer it. Right now, though, he doesn't need the extra incentive.
We go more the other way - privilages taken away when grades are poor.
There's an online system in place that allows me to monitor on a daily basis if she's turning her work in and what sort of work she's doing.
I once believed that cash rewards were a good incentive for grades, but for my dd, I don't think it is necessary.
So, would you return your Christmas bonus?
Respectfully, your son is not an employee.
I think in some cases it can work as Denise noted. For some kids they need that monetary incentive or even incentive of "things" like trips with friends. I have never done it, not sure why, I've never really thought about it. I think its a case of we often do things the way we were raised. Neither my ex nor I were ever rewarded for grades so it never occured to us to do it. But if she was flunking out and it was the only way to get her to be motivated I'm sure we would have tried it. I'm not above bribery should it be needed, but not as a matter of course.
She does however usually get something at the end of the year regardless of grades. Its more of a "Yippee, the year is done, lets celebrate the start of summer." kind of thing. But then sometimes she doesn't. I really just depends. We always go out for dinner though just for fun.
I buy a gift for especially good grades...Ryan got a computer game for his first semester grades.
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