I am curious how other people feel about rewards. I stay away from them in most cases of child development. It is my training and experience that children have their own internal drive to develop and adults should not create an exterior motivation. This takes the delight and joy away from the child’s personal process.

I was happy to read this recent comment posted on another site:

“I also, personally, wouldn’t resort to stickers from the start… the reward of wearing cool undies and being dry and not wearing diapers should be incentive enough! Save the stickers as a fall-back in case things really are still not going well after a couple weeks or so and she needs ‘extra’ motivation.”

What are your thoughts?

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