Rewards have become a big thing lately, in raising kids, school, and life in general. Rewards are nice to have every once in a while in the given circumstances. Though how much is too much? Maybe starting to give rewards too often or for the wrong reasons? I think that rewards may be good for people in feeling like they have accomplished something, but I think that people give too many awards lately, therefore, people get spoiled by rewards. Not only that, but they give them rewards, sometimes, for no real reason and have forgotten why you should give the rewards in the first place. Rewards are things you earn and I think that you shouldn’t be rewarded for everything you do.
People have a thinking that rewards may help their child do better in activities. In contrast though, a study of memory done by Guajardo and Best in the article “Effect of motivational incentives on prospective memory performance in preschoolers,” this idea was looked down upon. It has been shown that children that were tested with some sort of an incentive; did not improve their memory capability or results in a few of the …show more content…
Today, though, there are things such as special Olympics and activities for the disabled where they can be noticed, and even though they may get an award for things they do, they don’t always need it. I’ve seen disabled children where all they really want is just to be noticed and they don’t need an incentive because these children just could use your company and just having that is rewarding enough. I think that from my experience of helping out once in PEP which is for disabled people, I can safely say that this is true. As I spent time with them and did things like played games or went on walks together, they honestly just enjoyed my company and didn’t need a reward for doing a good job or behaving
People have a thinking that rewards may help their child do better in activities. In contrast though, a study of memory done by Guajardo and Best in the article “Effect of motivational incentives on prospective memory performance in preschoolers,” this idea was looked down upon. It has been shown that children that were tested with some sort of an incentive; did not improve their memory capability or results in a few of the …show more content…
Today, though, there are things such as special Olympics and activities for the disabled where they can be noticed, and even though they may get an award for things they do, they don’t always need it. I’ve seen disabled children where all they really want is just to be noticed and they don’t need an incentive because these children just could use your company and just having that is rewarding enough. I think that from my experience of helping out once in PEP which is for disabled people, I can safely say that this is true. As I spent time with them and did things like played games or went on walks together, they honestly just enjoyed my company and didn’t need a reward for doing a good job or behaving