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Everyone loves rewards, adults and children a like. Television commercials promote rewards for all sorts of programs, providing adults with cash, points towards travel and the like.
Children are the same, the rewards just change. Small children love stickers or small pieces of candy. They love the idea even of receiving a reward, at home or in school for their talents, behaviors, or for performing a good deed.
Older students love the reward concept too, the rewards in school usually provided at the end of the week, collecting points or monies that allow them to purchase treats at the end of the week.
Rewards in school are pretty common, but rewards in the home can be as well. Rewards can come in the form of a special visit to the ice cream store on progress report or report card days, or rewards can be given for other items, like being responsible, children taking a correct action showing their moral capabilities, or for doing tasks without being asked.
Children love to have rewards and it is always a great surprise to them when they receive something not expecting it. Of course, if they ask it’s not truly a reward.
Rewards are also great ways to model good behaviors and maintain positive discipline. With younger children, when positive discipline is being enforced, parents might establish a jar that cotton balls get placed in for positive behaviors. As children get older, it can be money or something that represents a final reward. Rewards help children represent goals.
Often for adults, the reward is a final goal or product that warrants saving money or gaining something. To receive the reward, we have to take steps to receive the reward and enjoy the benefits like relaxing with direct.tv movies later on. We need to use these examples in our lives for our children to see, so they understand that we all go through the same feats to receive a reward.
