Paying your kids for good grades

[Almighty Colin]

I should throw something else out there. My daughter lives more than 1000 miles from me. In the past I've asked her to send me her report cards and asked about her grades and classes and she was always disinterested. Yesterday she called me and very excitedly said, "Dad you owe me $105!" We talked about her two B's and how to get them up to A's. It seems to me that by paying her for grades she realizes how much they matter to me and that has a positive effect too. Telling a child "good job" on the telephone seems to have a more limited effect.