Do you bribe your kids to get them to behave?
I’ve been told by several people that giving my kids an allowance to perform household chores is in essence - bribing them to do things that should be done anyway - and I’d like to get your thoughts.
The rules surrounding allowances in my house are simple. The children are rewarded with a ‘paycheck’ of sorts for conducting ’some’ chores. I don’t believe in giving an allowance to children for keeping their own rooms clean - they should do that for themselves.
The types of chores I reward are things like cleaning central areas of the house - family room, bathroom, kitchen. They are also rewarded for doing things like mowing the lawn, raking leaves and cleaning the garage. Aside from that, they are rewarded for good grades on their report cards.
Now, my thought process is this…
I simply believe that rewarding my children with an allowance for doing jobs around the house are simply conditioning them to do their jobs as adults where they will earn a paycheck.
What’s the difference?
Thoughts?
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1 opinion for Do you bribe your kids to get them to behave?
beta mum
Jul 9, 2007 at 2:40 pm
My son asked to stop having pocket money. He claims it’s because we spend too much on him already. I reckon it’s so we can’t now withdraw the pocket money for bad behaviour.
If we tried to pay him for doing stuff, I think he’d forego the money in order to avoid the chores.
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