Using money reward to encourage students may sound unreasonable and unacceptable at first, while seeing so many evidence and thinking through it, it is indeed a very efficient method to encourage children for a better grade.
Firstly, children, especially primary school students, are too immature to realize how important the study is for their future development. Parents can help them in this monetary way, which is a simulation of future gaining if they study hard right now. There are many parents using this reward to encourage and stimulate their kids around me since I was a child, and sometimes I wish to obtain some actual cash reward while my parents insisted on mental motivation. Thus, this way can be helpful for children to learn the consequence if they do not work hard in a more efficient way, when their siblings can gain pocket money after achieved higher scores in schools.
Moreover, many universities are using scholarship to encourage students, which is a similar way, and it turns out to be sustainable with positive effects. When parents are using real money to motivate their children, they are under huge pressure of misleading. Personally, there is nothing to worry about, because curious children who are eager to gain more knowledge will always gain the reward and not be disappointed. At the same time, this process is a simple resemble of the real society, where people with higher scores or more intelligence with get better jobs and considerable salary. It is better letting children know the rules of the real world rather than letting them keep daydreaming all day.
Finally, the worry about the unsustainability of this incentive method is unnecessary. After children have realized the benefit they can obtain from studying hard, the external motivation will be gradually transferred into internal motivation, and this won’t happen backwards. In other words, the hypothesis of the money incentive creating long-time positive effect will come true in some children’s cases.
Using
money
reward
to
encourage
students may sound unreasonable and unacceptable at
first
, while seeing
so
many evidence
and thinking through it, it is
indeed
a
very
efficient method to
encourage
children
for a better grade.
Firstly
,
children
,
especially
primary school students, are too immature to realize how
important
the study is for their future development.
Parents
can
help
them in this monetary way, which is a simulation of future gaining if they study
hard
right
now
. There are
many
parents
using this
reward
to
encourage
and stimulate their kids around me since I was a child, and
sometimes
I wish to obtain
some
actual cash
reward
while my
parents
insisted on mental motivation.
Thus
, this way can be helpful for
children
to learn the consequence if they do not work
hard
in a more efficient way, when their siblings can gain pocket
money
after achieved higher scores in schools.
Moreover
,
many
universities are using scholarship to
encourage
students, which is a similar way, and it turns out to be sustainable with
positive
effects. When
parents
are using real
money
to motivate their
children
, they are under huge pressure of misleading.
Personally
, there is nothing to worry about,
because
curious
children
who are eager to gain more knowledge will always gain the
reward
and not
be disappointed
. At the same time, this process is a simple resemble of the real society, where
people
with higher scores or more intelligence with
get
better jobs and considerable salary. It is better letting
children
know the
rules
of the real world
rather
than letting them
keep
daydreaming all day.
Finally
, the worry about the
unsustainability
of this incentive method is unnecessary. After
children
have realized the benefit they can obtain from studying
hard
, the external motivation will be
gradually
transferred into internal motivation, and this won’t happen backwards.
In other words
, the hypothesis of the
money
incentive creating long-time
positive
effect will
come
true in
some
children’s
cases.