cash for good grades

[Autumnlicious]

Yeah, whether it's money or some other kind of reward, it's not the reward itself that matters. It's the simple fact that good behaviour is being rewarded in some way.

THIS.

This is exactly what's wrong.

Mindless "rewarding" of actions you normally expect out of a normal thinking human devalues the extraordinary actions. Christ, talk about super entitlement syndrome here...

And what happens if you need to migrate away from giving them some reward? That they've grown old enough where that is to be expect and required, not simply "asked for"?

I'm fairly certain they'll read your intent to quit rewarding them as frequently well...