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Originally Posted by willravel
That's the second time you've equated dinner with tv and video games. If you send your child to bed without dinner, you've committed an act of child abuse and the authorities should be notified. If you send your child to bed without TV or video games, you're probably a good parent, and the authorities should not be notified (unless they have some sort of trophy or award, in which case they should be notified immediatally).
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One meal is not child abuse.
Children should be held accountable for their actions. I stated that I was not equating dinner with TV/video games and yet you claim that I am. Are you trying to be rude? Or is there a better explanation?
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Originally Posted by willravel
Also, do you understand that something can be both a reward and a priveledge? Fro example, I was rewarded for excellent grades with my father's hand-me-down Ford Tempo when I turned 17. It was both reward and priveledge.
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Shouldn't you get good grades anyway. Weren't you saying that rewards aren't the way to parent. You would've learned more if you worked a job and paid for your own car. Also, your Dad wouldn't be able to do whatever he wanted with your "reward". Are these your words? "
The thing is: anything you make in to a reward will be, after a time, galvanized as a reward in the mind of the child."
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Originally Posted by willravel
The question isn't "is a driver's license a reward", but "can a drivers license be a reward?". It can, in fact, be a reward for studying and practicing so that you do well on your test. Also, the term "special behavior" is quite relative. How would this behavior be special? Is it out of the ordinary? If that's the case, then why has Britney Spears been rewarded with millions of dollars for performing garbage for years?
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Your Britney Spears analogy is a nice red herring. What sort of wine are you serving with that? Her parents didn't give her those millions.
The state grants licenses, it doesn't award them. Yes, a parent can pull a license. The state still recognizes their driving priveledges.