Maybe bribing is a strong word, related more to crime than to the education of children. But that what some parents do with their children, bribe them.
Many parents use the rewards system to motivate children to do this or that. "If you eat the food there is ice cream for dessert" or "if you behave well I buy you a toy".
That can be a common example of what most parents do to get children to do what we want.
But there is a dangerous limit, and here is the problem. When the reward is abused and becomes more than a motivation, a bribe.
We must parents be very careful not to fall into a bad use of the reward system. Well, it could become a dynamic in which the child always expects a prize for doing things right, or in other words, only does things well if he has a reward.
There are children who, when parents tell them something, respond "what will you give me if I do such a thing?" I think it is not the right way to educate, nor to give true value to things. It is okay to motivate them from time to time but not base a child's education on a reward system, I think.
There comes a time when communication between parents and children goes through what they will receive rather than appeal to the child's reasoning as to why he should behave well. It is still a comfortable way to avoid the responsibility of educating.
Not to mention when the child begins to have a sense of money and parents take advantage of the case to fatten the pig with bribes.
