Curious to hear the HN crowd take on this.
Ask HN: Do you pay your children for good grades?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you pay your children for good grades?
#2No, we never did. The thought never crossed our minds.
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#3NO
When I was younger my dad paid us. When I had kids I did not. When we were having our first child I thought back and realized a few key points from my childhood:
Giving a child an allowance, and making them pay for their WANTS from the allowance is the cheapest financial education.
Being involved in their education is the best motivator for good grades. Getting money was nice, but knowing my parents cared about education drove me to care.
To be involved means spending time EVERYDAY talking about their school and homework. Asking if they have homework is better than nothing, ask 'what is the homework' is better. Discussing the homework is best.
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#4My best friend was incentivised this way by his parents to learn a foreign language. We're talking about 30 years ago. At the time, I thought it sounded utterly ridiculous. Nowadays, he works as a schoolteacher, teaching that very language to kids in public schools. He has a PhD in it now. So, it all turned out rather well.
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Re: Ask HN: Do you pay your children for good grades?
#6My advice:
Encourage and celebrate your children in their success.
Console and support them in their struggles.
For they are children and you are the adult.
Good luck.
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#7No definitely won't. I'll try my best to help him find something he loves to do for life, but I don't want to put money with study.
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#8Not really no. When they were younger, I would set up incentives though.
Now they're in high school and there's enough consequences (they're all in sports and can't play in games if their grades are bad) and I let them do their thing and occasionally remind them of consequences. Also, that trying and failing isn't necessarily bad and is often good.
It's better to let them learn about consequences/cause and effect without much of a safety net before adulthood.
Re: Ask HN: Do you pay your children for good grades?
#9Yes,
$500 for an A, $250 for a B+
Kids are in middle school. The rate would be higher for high school. No, would not do this once they enter college.
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#10Yes. Been doing this for years. Kids in middle school and in high school. Some were more incentivized than others. Did help with kid that was getting lower grades, to put more effort into studying.
$20 for an A, $10 for a B, C (-$5), D (-$10), F (-$20).