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Ooh, that's a dangerous, dangerous path. It's well known that adding financial incentives can have all sorts of negative side-effects. Beyond the obvious "gami
by swombat 17y ago
Ooh, that's a dangerous, dangerous path. It's well known that adding financial incentives can have all sorts of negative side-effects.
Beyond the obvious "gaming the system" problems, there is the well-known fact that paying people to do what they should want to do by themselves can have strong negative effects on motivation. Once the payments stop, his son will probably feel like he's being wronged because his dad's not paying him to play football anymore, and turn his back on it. Net result is the opposite of what he was trying to achieve.
- jacquesm 17y agoExactly. He's conditioning his son to whine about all kinds of stuff so he'll get money in order to perform. School grades and so on. I'm really not sure if this is smart. Such tricks work both ways. I've sent my son to karate, I never had to 'push' him there (or bribe him) and if he didn't want to do it any more then that would be fine with me, even though it is beneficial to him. There are plenty of choices, and if you can only get your child to do what should come natural because of a monetary incentive then that will come back in some way in the future.