How much to reward good grades is a subject of much debate.  But I think good grades should be rewarded one way or another.  I always make sure to point it out if we are doing something because my daughter gets good grades.

For example, when we went to Disneyland in January my daughter missed 4 days of school.  I made sure she knew that we couldn’t have done that if she didn’t have such great grades.  I went on and on about how if she was having trouble in school we couldn’t have let her miss days to go Disneyland.  I tried hard to not make it sound like Disneyland was the reward for good grades.  (I certainly can’t keep up that standard!)  But instead tried to show her that her good grades gave us the opportunity to go to Disneyland.  It’s a subtle difference, but I think she understood.

That said, last weekend we went on an official reward outing.  We went to see Disney on Ice, just my daughter and I.  We got dressed up very fancy and had a night on the town just the two of us.  It was a lot of fun.  During the week I had taken her to Target and let her pick out a new dress.  Any dress she wanted.  They had all the Easter dresses on display she had plenty of extra fancy dresses to pick from.   She picked this one.   It’s really cute on her.  I think she made an excellent choice.   She also got some new shoes to go with her dress.  She wanted these, which admittedly did look nicer with the dress, but I got her these ones.  I had executive powers on the shoe choice because I really needed her to get something she can wear all summer.  It’s one thing to buy a dress she is only going to wear twice (we have a wedding this summer).  But shoes too… that’s where I draw the line.

I didn’t calculate every dollar.  But I would say the whole night cost about $80.  That includes, the tickets, her dress, and parking.  It’s a lot, I admit.  But it’s not something we do all the time.  She wanted to go see that show and I felt a reward was in order for her awesome grades this year.  I know she’s only in first grade, but I figure making a big deal out of good grades won’t hurt anything.  Not everyone gets straight A’s, even in first grade.

pic by: Hythe Eye

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