Cowboy Caleb the liberal arts, grown-up stuff & random mischief

Twinkle Bling Bling Little Stars

Following on from the pencil box saga, I drove my little niece to her tuiton center yesterday. She was bashfully unremorseful about the pencil case incident and spent the entire journey demonstrating to the me the special features, hidden compartments and snap-away portions.

Kids can be so shameless.

Later that night, when I picked her up and brought her home, I noticed she had a new bunch of pencils that were not there earlier.

Her mom told me later about this tuiton center. Apparently they have a reward policy in place.

All sums done correctly = 50 stars
All spelling done with no mistakes = 50 stars
Homework completed on time = 20 stars

When the kids have earned enough stars, they can redeem the aforementioned stars for pencils (500 stars), erasers (300 stars) and so on and so forth.

I’m not sure if this is healthy. Kids should not have to be constantly rewarded to make them work.

Why when I was young, the sight of my teacher’s cane was motivation enough.

weeee i’m the 1st to comment!
well, little kids nowadays got short attention span.
so in a way it’s gd to motivate them with such stationary.
afterall they can use it + it’s not too ex wat.

think abt those from rich families that demands $100 for doing homework or acing that test, or even couple of grands for coming in top in class.
that’s way too off. =D

Teacher’s cane? Is that a hidden meaning?

cow> yeah but if you motivate kids this way… they won’t work for free next time.

king meng > your dick is as slim as a cane, we know.

WE???

only YOU lar..

cbc> well that’s true.
perhaps that’s why kids nowadays are farking materialistic & money-minded.
not too bad though if they’re making $$ for u. =P

anyway lucky it’s only the cane, not some other weird instruments with a built-in motor.

Understand how you feel. We all want kids to be innocent like how they’re supposed to be. But the fact is after all when they grow up, they will also work for the sake of rewards. Not to say that that is the correct attitude.

motivation by reward is better than motivation by fear, no? but best is self motivation lah……..

xt> if those damn kids can self-motivate themselves when they’re so small, then u think why they need the dunkin’ treatment in army when they’re 18 for?
to make dunkin’ donuts izzit?