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Should you bribe your children?
Should you bribe your kids?
This is basically, if all else fails, bribe your kids and bribe 'em good.
IT wasn't hard to bribe your way into Madison Square Garden in the 1970s.
Certain types of medical care are supposed to be free, but you have to bribe your way into the clinic.
He recalled the Soviet days when cafes were so scarce that sometimes you had to bribe your way in.
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Bribing your child's way into college seems like an outgrowth of these patterns of overstepping.
If you're good, I'll buy you a toy: The difference between bribing your child and rewarding your child.
Turns out, whether you're bribing your son to perform well in school, comforting your kid when her classmates are mean, or even congratulating your daughter for a job well done, research shows there's a right and wrong way to do it.
"We reheat the packaged meals really slowly, so that the food doesn't get too mushy and tasteless". Are you bribing your doctor or just saying thanks for that time she saved your leg?
(And no, bribing your child with a scoop of ice cream for finishing Anne of Green Gables is not one of them!) If your child seems highly-resistant to reading -- perhaps because of boring, unpleasant experiences in the past -- try to figure out which kinds of books might spark excitement, and start there.
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