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“The worst outcome would be that your child’s attention and focus is taken off the task in hand and is placed onto the reward. In order to be successful, your child needs to have a clear picture of his goal and want it badly. Offering money in return for good results places your child’s desire in the wrong place and make no mistake, your child will figure out how to obtain maximum reward for minimum effort.”
― Words That Work: How to Get Kids to Do Almost Anything
― Words That Work: How to Get Kids to Do Almost Anything
“According to the NSPCC there’s been a 200% rise in requests for counselling as a result of exam stress with its ChildLine service receiving more than 34,000 approaches in 2013-14.”
― Words That Work: How to Get Kids to Do Almost Anything
― Words That Work: How to Get Kids to Do Almost Anything
“Avoid rewards: Psychological studies have proven that offering rewards actually reduces the level of interest your child will have in their studies. They’ll also send out the message that exams are negative experiences that need compensating for and you’ll inadvertently exaggerate the unpleasantness of the whole situation.”
― Words That Work: How to Get Kids to Do Almost Anything
― Words That Work: How to Get Kids to Do Almost Anything
