As a kid, what motivated you to do good in school?

As I can remember when I was still a kid each time I get a star or a medal my parents give me a reward. It could either be something material or they treat me for a fancy dinner. Another thing also that motivates me is when I see them happy and so proud of me. I also love it when I get praised by my teachers, classmates and friends for doing a good job.

Man, I need some of those bribes. Anyway, my parents never bribed me or encouraged me to do in school. They are only there when I start messing around the house becuase I have that haunting feeling that I am going to fail a subject. Nonetheless, what motivated to do good in school is the fun (and the pains) of learning. I have always been curious about things and I always do well in academics (except the hateful math). I guess studying for me is kinda like a second nature - I don't have to like it or hate it - it's just part of me.

I did very well at school when we lived in Italy but when we moved to Australia where we live now, my grades went down. One good reason was that I had to learn how to speak English so that didn’t do my studies much good! By the time I got to high school was confidence was not too good. I did better but the motivation I once had was not there anymore...I had to go back to studying as an adult in order to obtain some qualifications in freelance journalism and as an adult my motivation was my passion for writing!

Being kid you should be always behave with your parents because parents never think any bad for you. All parents strive everything, do what they need to do to make their children in a better way.

I was home schooled. It never mattered how fast we got it done as long as it got done. I also did schoolwork all day, all year round. I thing the thing that most motivated me is the fact that I knew I wouldn't be held back from finishing. When I finished it wouldn't matter if I was 12 or 21... I would only finish when I got through all the grades. I ended up finishing when I was 15... I took a loooooong break from studies and I'm in college now. I was really worried that being home schooled would me that I wouldn't be able to do college coursework... but really the only thing that I have a problem with in college is the immaturity of my classmates.

Well there was a monetary motivation in place. I was paid for my good grades. And I had to pay my parents if I did not have good grades. So the fact that I am going to lose money really did motivate me to do well. Or at least attempt to do well. There were a few classes where I kind of really was lax and just scratched out a "C" which is the borderline of being successful. I think as I got older, I realized that the good grades with necessary to better myself in life. So that was a secondary motivation. However, that did not develop until I got a bit into high school. There were many times where I really buckled down during those years in a way that I did not previously. Of course, I could not fully comprehend the future until I got into my teenage years.

Being in a family with many siblings and not being able to get anything I want, getting good grades was one of the ways to receive something I want like toys and other things a child would normally want to have, so at first I did strive to be in the honor rolls but then, I guess because of good genes lessons in elementary came easy and my study habit was good so passing and topping the class wasn't really a problem anymore. We get to become the topic of any family gathering chats, where my parents would be proud of us and boast of our achievements. I guess I got tired of it and started being lazy in college, add to it many other factors, summing up to me staying longer in college than expected.

As a child, my mother and grandparents would promise to give me more spending money if I have good grades in school. I did want more spending money but that didn't stop me from falling asleep on top of homework I guess I wasn't much of a studious person back then. If I was, I probably could have afforded to buy more strawberry flavored popicles and lemon candy.

hi reco wwo that was so long ago.looking back I think I was always motivated by all the books I read as I wanted to be a writer. my' parents squelched that but all during school and c ollege my fondness for writing prevailed although I ended up being a nurses aide and later working in the library.But always my heros and heroines were in the novels I read. I did well in school bur here I am now a senior citizen and still an unpublished writer.

I was never bribed to do well. I'm Asian so it was an expectation for me to get straight As. School was easy and fun when I was a kid. I liked to learn and I was good at it. I liked the sense of accomplishment that comes with a job well done. That's the psychosocial stage of industry vs. inferiority that Erik Erikson speaks of in his stages of development (the third one in childhood). I'm studying for my psychology test right now. Heehee. Some people are just born with a natural interest in learning and the school years are the best for them. I frankly hope I never stop learning, although things don't come as easy for me as they used to particularly with vocabulary.

hi reco13, i think i am back then, i am motivated as most of us do when we're young is to the allowances or packed lunch or little gifts our parents promises us though sometimes they just tricked us. i also go to school back then to play with my classmates and just have fun. happy mylotting. :-)

yeah,I'm agree with you,,

Honestly, i've never done GREAT in school. I felt that i was always the stupid one even though i never tried to be stupid.. lol. the only things that iw as good at was music and english. But i have a step son and a boyfriend that i live with. if i were to motivate my kid to go to school, i would get them realy involved with school activities so they would like to go to school, and extra cirricular activities that would involve school. I would study and make sure all their stuff is done and develop a study schedule with them while their young so by the time they are in highschool they are well capable of being indepedent on studying. I wouldn't know what else to do. lol I need to be interested in something in order for me to do good at it. If i were you, i would just home school my kid :D

One-on-one student/teacher interaction is what made me do well in school. I went to a small high school...And when I say small I mean VERY small. We had 25 kids in our whole entire high school. We got the teacher's undivided individual attention a lot, which motivated me to do well. When you become close to a teacher or mentor, you do not want to disappoint them. I went from failing everything, to being on high honors.

Frankly I never needed any motivation to go to school when I was kid because I used to love to go to school as it was the place for me for my enjoyment. i was not a good at studies , just because I never used to pay much attention towards my studies. I was always interested in doing the mischiefs and play pranks with my friends. Like me there were few friends who were interested in doing mischief in the class. But we never used to get failed in the class. We were always get promoted to next class. We enjoyed our school days thoroughly. My life has taken a sudden turn after tenth standard, I managed to get first division in the Board Examination with all my mischiefs which along with others made my self wondered. there after I thought for myself that with minimum studies I can manage to fetch first division then I must work to get better result. Then I have started paying attention in my studies and once I started studying I developed interest in studies and school. There after I transformed my self as a brilliant and student student at the school and this has improved and boosted my enthusiasm to attend the school and there after I attended school with the intention of study there not to do any mischief over there, There after till the Post Graduation I was a Merit student and Scholarship holder too! Thanks for taking me back to my golden days! It was indeed a nice topic of discussion and enjoyed participating in it!

I changed schools when I was around eight years old and the school I moved to had a scheme where your received awards for not having a day off. You got to stand in front of the whole school and received cheers for doing well, this lead me to picking up hobbies and taking school more seriously. I really enjoy that specific school and I made many good friends.

Last time when I was still in high school, I wasn't really that hardworking. All my grades were kind of borderline. For some subjects like geography and english and those language subjects, I did well. Geography requires understanding and logic and memorising, that's why I was able to ace. But back to the topic, last time my father promised me an iPhone if I got all As for my subjects. However, I don't even know what the iPhone is at that time! LOL!!! How could I possibly work hard? Well, the thing which motivated me the most should be my happy-go-lucky and positive attitude which kept me going. I didn't really want any material rewards. I just want to pass and do well, that's all. At most, I will play the computer. Yea, perhaps this was what motivated me in school.

Mine is different. I wasn't really motivated to do well in school. It was more of fear. Fear to get scolded if I flank my grades, fear of being compared as nothing to my sister who was doing well in school.Fear of getting humiliated... I don't remember my parents motivating me to study well with promises of material things , not even comfort food. I hardly heard them praised me whenever I got high grades, as if that was expected of me. What I remember was my Mother telling me to study well because they do not want us to be like them who never had the chance to finish their schooling thus making their lives difficult...

I never usually believe that they will make they promises come true because especially when they didnt i feel really bad that i dont care about my life. What motivates me his my own dream to own a Lamborghini when i grow older and i am still working towards that dream

Actually my parents doesn't make promises to me. What motivates me actually is my grades at school. For example like I get a grade of 86%, I'm really not contented with it, thats why I go for the grade about 90%+. I actually think that my motivation is kinda weird but this kind of motivation doesn't really need promises from parents to do good at school! :D