Bribing Children - Risk for Rewards

"Call it a reward, or just "bribery." Whichever it is, many parents today readily admit to buying off their children, who get goodies for anything from behaving in a restaurant to sleeping all night in their own beds. Often, the rewards are for behaviors their own parents would have simply expected, just because they said so. The new dynamic — sometimes seen as a backlash to that strictness — has some parenting experts wondering if today's parents have gone too soft."
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Source: Martha Irvine AP National Writer

Resources:
Adelphi: http://www.adelphi.edu/parentinginstitute/
Zero to Three: http://www.zerotothree.org