Five Bucks

Right, wrong or indifferent, when I was a kid my mom used to pay me to get good grades. Every quarter when I brought my report card home, I would earn money for my grades. Since Colton is in third grade this year and they are starting letter grades, I thought I would run the idea by him and see what he thought. I told him that if he wanted, we would start giving him $5 for every A, $3 for every B, and $1 for every C. However, if there are any D's, then he gets nothing. I told him that is not a punishment, but if he does not understand something to the point of getting a D, that it is his responsibility to address it before report card time.

So, five days in to school, he brings home his folder with graded papers. Well, somewhere between when we discussed the plan and when he brought home his first grade, he must have forgotten the "report card" part. He walks in the door, hands me a paper with an A and goes, "Yeah, I'll take my five bucks now."

Lovely.