I know that my children mean well, but periodically they just don’t behave even when I provide them strict instruction otherwise! I don’t want to have to treat them every single time they go out to the store just to drive them into behaving well.
I believe it’s a dangerous road to go down plus establish the wrong trend.
Because then they’ll be expecting rewards just for behavior that should be expected of them regardless of the situation. And then in the future they’re not going to have the values plus the character built inside to behave correctly just because it’s the right thing to do. It’s not tploy morality if you have to see an ulterior motive for doing the right thing, then you need to be able to make the right decisions in life regardless of how something could benefit you in the long run; Right now we are trying to teach our children to keep their hands off the temperature control for the central Heating & A/C system. After going back plus forth with them, I decided to put a lock box over the temperature control. It’s basically a clear plastic box with a key pour on it that you manually unlock every time you want to access the temperature control; These were over temperature controls in our dorm rooms in school. Basically the temperature control would get set by the administration plus then it would be locked so you couldn’t change it as a student. I feel exasperated that I have to use a lock box over the Heating & A/C temperature control, but it’s the only solution right now until our children learn more self control.