66: Should I Bribe My Kid?
Ask Lisa: The Psychology of Raising Tweens & Teens
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Is It Okay to Bribe a Kid?
Lisa Bloom: Is it okay to bribe a kid? And the mom's asking here to do more activities. She says she heard two key drivers in her letter that I think are really important because if we're going to do something like bribing, we want to have a why. One was that when he comes home and is unstructured, it's a lot of YouTube and computer. Which she'd really rather not have happening. Yes. The other one came right at the end; she gets the sense he could use more structure,. So these two together make the case for leaning on this kid, for trying to make it happen.
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