Reward Kids Who Do Good & They Will Always Do The Right Thing(s)

Worked for me with 2 kids as a single Dad livig alone in Helsinki ... Kant's writings, while genius, are written in much too complicated Aristocratic Old-German... A four-year-old in a suburban daycare earns a sticker every time she shares a toy. By age six, she shares less when no sticker is offered. Teachers notice the shift but struggle to explain why. A German philosopher who never raised children of his own predicted exactly this outcome in university lectures delivered more than two centuries ago. Immanuel Kant argued that children taught to be good only for rewards grow into adults who calculate personal advantage rather than follow moral principle. He did not question whether rewards work. He argued they work too well at producing compliance, and that this is precisely the problem. Kant’s core warning, preserved in his collected lectures and writings, is blunt: “If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.” The final clause matters most. A child raised on transaction does not become immoral. He becomes a calculator. Kant saw this not as a failure of discipline but as a failure of moral education. The behavior was never internalized. It was only rented. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/immanuel-kant-german-philosopher-if-you-punish-a-child-for-being-naughty-and-reward-him-for-being-good-he-will-do-right-just-for-the-reward/ar-AA2427IN?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=6a2498d89a2445e384ffedc806af4e5b&ei=17