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Call it a reward,or just"bribery."
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Whichever it is, many parents today readily admit to buying off their children,who get goodies for anything from behaving in a restaurant to sleeping all night in their own beds.
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the rewards are for behaviorstheir own parents would have simply expected,just because they said so.Parents and experts alike agree that the dynamic is partly a reflection of the worldwe live in-where many families have more than previous generations.It's unrealistic to think a parent who wouldn't reward their children with materialthings sometimes
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says Robin Lanzi,a clinical psychologist and mother of four who'sthe research director at the Center on Health and Education at Georgetown University.
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'But you want to make sure that they match the behavior,so it's not somethinghuge for something small,"Lanzi says Those who specialize in child behavior say they hear those kinds of stories fromparents all the timeand often try to suggest methods that don't involve material rewards.
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