biggest rolemodels are his or her parents prabhu says since you will gift these anyway says prabhu it is advisable that you dont associate them with performance bribing with a chocolate for a kiss now could lead to a government scam later the lure of rewards reward systems have their origin in behavioural psychology which explores how human behaviour can change in sight of rewards reinforcers a child overhearing this will draw hisher conclusion to what is correct and what isnt a child has to leave footprints behind and the onus is on you to ensure that those footprints should be worth it so when parents lie or fail to adhere to their principles the child gets the message that such behaviour is acceptable if parents say or do anything wrong or improper in front of the child they should accept their mistakes from exchanging toys on conditions to bribing the building watchman children take their first bite at bribery quite unknowingly anandhollatimesgroupcom his rich father was wellknown for being corrupt the younger the child the truer this holds when raising children with strong moral values leading by example becomes all the more important screen outside influences that might corrupt your children build character point out whats right whats wrong and whats expected the child may expect emotional rewards but in no time she gets used to this and stops valuing emotionschildren are fantastic negotiators and keep upping their request for each subsequent target a laptop for desired percentage etc she thinks that she can escape a sticky situation by lying or bribing the child especially in the early years takes the parents word as gospel prabhu explains a boy i know is exploited by his classmates into doing their homework failing which they threaten to drop him from their group so it is essential for parents to maintain consistency in what they say and do insists prabhu