Do you pay your kids for good grades?

My eldest son is always on the top 10 of his class. And everytime he's in top 1 to 3, we usually have a lil celebration, just a lil, like buying cake, or just pizza. but it depends on our budget. Like now, he finished top 1 during first grading, but we don't have budget for a lil celebration, I guess a lot of appreciation is enough. I always tell him, that getting high grades is good for his future, he'll find a better paying job.. etc. We don't give him money for every high grades, but we do give him something special that he really really likes during christmas.

"I guess some at the high school are getting upwards of $20 per A on a report card" Okay I'm sorry but I think that is insane! I expect my kids to bring home great grades REGARDLESS of whether or not they are goin to get money for it....We dont pay the kids BUT in the past we HAVE shot them a couple bucks (like $5) for an exceptionally great report card but other than that hell no! They should be bringing home good/great grades BECAUSE THEY WANT TO, because its IMPORTANT for their future NOT because they'll get paid off for it..and $20 PER A??? Thats NUTS!

I don't pay my daughter for good grades, it's expected that she do well or she doesn't play sports and get all the extras she's used to. We also make her read a half hour a night, but in return she gets unlimited phone and computer time which I can thnakfully say she has yet to abuse. The bank she has her savings account in pays her for good grades, $3 for every "A", and $1 for every "B" at the end of each semester. They deposit it right into her savings when we bring in her report card, which I think is kinda cool.

When I was a kid my parents gave a little cash reward if you UPPED your grades, not depending on what grades you got. That ment neither my sister nor I ever got anything, but my halfbrother got a ton after he switched to special class. Life sucks, but seriously, I would have asked to 20 other things over having a report card cash bonus....

Paying children for getting good grades is not a wise thing. They should be motivated to try to do the best as a matter of habit-a small things like praising them,encouraging them to do better-asking them to compete not with others but with themselves to do better than earlier, will help more. Giving them surprise gifts sometime is ok, but one should NOT make it habit

We do provide an incentive for our children's grades. I guess my reasoning behind it was to give some positive reinforcement when grades are good along with the negative reinforcement they would get (never had to do it yet) when grades were not good. My daughter has always been a A student so she loves it. My son has always received good grades also but it is a little more difficult for him. I agree that they should get good grades because they want to. But with teenagers having that mentality does not always prevail. I have seen several times where my daughter was tempted to slack off a little bit, but thought about her "grades incentive" and pulled it together. Our system is a little different than most. My daughter is a Jr. in high school. She has 7 graded classes. Initially, her progress report is worth $100. Every grade that is a B or less results in a $20 deduction. My daughter is very "business minded" so she loves weighing her options. There are additional bonuses for making the honor roll and getting a 4.0. I know many will not agree with our methodology. We have told her that going to school is her job right now. She does not have to get an afterschool job because we want school to be her priority. We also recognize that teenagers like and need a little financial freedom. They need to learn how to manage money (including how to make it). So, if she decides to slack off a little bit and settle for a B in a class that she could have received an A from, that's up to her. But she knows it will cost her $20. We don't even discuss C's in out home.

My parents took us out for dinner if we got good report cards. That was about it. Good grades were expected; bad grades were cause for extra homework, tutoring, or grounding.

My oldest daughter has never been a "star student" and we were always lucky if she passed a grade, bringing home all A's and B's just never happened for her. My middle child has been a pretty good student, really enjoys school so we don't really have a problem with her grades. I was at the end of my rope with my older daughter, not knowing how to motivate her in to working harder and getting better grades until I started paying her for her good grades. Originally the deal was that everytime they brought home a graded paper I would pay them for it, 50 cents for an A paper and 25 cents for a B paper. I did that until I realized that my older daughter was writing A's on her papers that weren't graded and trying to pass it off as the teacher's doing. So now I just pay them for the report cards and progress reports that they bring home, same rate of pay, just for A's and B's. Both of my children have improved thankfully, school is not such a fight anymore, they know that they have to work hard for their grades in order to get some pocket money. I also offer bonuses for honor roll status which I've never had to give out. I think that giving out that kind of scratch per grade ($20) is nuts but some people can afford it I guess. I never got paid for my grades but I didn't know what else to try with my daughter.

You know I don't have my own kids yet But when I was in junior high I had a heck of a time with Algebra. I struggled and struggled and struggled. All my other grades were great except for Algebra. Then one day my dad told me if you bring me home an A in Algebra on your next report card I will give you $50. Well I had been struggling so much he thought it would never happen. I spent more time with my Algebra teacher studying then I spent at home! The next grading period I brought home an A in Algebra and collected my $50! My dad was SO SHOCKED! He never made me a deal like that again! lol

Eh? This is crazy. Tell the kids that they will get the money later on when they have a good job because they've been getting good grades when they're at school. I've never heard of such a thing before, but I don't think this is a good practice. It's more logical to give kids some money if they go out of their way to do some housework that they don't like rather than just by getting straight A's.

I think that paying kids for good grades would be a nice idea to bring them to study harder and understand that every good thing you do in life has a good consequence. When we are young we just don't understand what's the point in studying, we don't realize whether it is a useful thing or not. So I think that giving some money to your son or daughter after he/she got a good grade at school is definitely a good thing. Obviously it must not be done for every good mark, but just in case of special tests or something particulary difficult, so that the kid can feel satisfied even though he doesn't actually realize the importance of having a proper education.