My little one earns 100 sats for finishing a book (70 for comics). Since I started this 'bribe,' he reads more regularly.
Author Alfie Kohn (“Punished by Rewards”) disagrees with this approach, he makes a good case, but I considered counterarguments and went ahead anyway.
Today, we bought three new books. Can you guess which one I chose?
#grownostr #bookstr
Love this
Cool father! Keep it up ⚡️
I once sent my little one to a "science lab" for a week, he came back with strange and abhorrent ideas that were completely not age-appropriate, and had nothing to do with what the organisers had promised to teach the kids!
This was a wake-up call for me and I have since understood that we don't have to take a backseat when it come to the education of our kids.
Absolutely! Great to hear
Great idea to incentivize with sats! For more ideas on what to read with kids, here is the recommended summer reading list from a classical k-12 school:
Kindergarten
•Make Way for Ducklings, Robert McKloskey
•Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
•Dr. Seuss Books
•Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne
•When We Were Very Young, A.A. Milne
•William Steig Books
First Grade
•The Nutcracker
•Encyclopedia Brown
•The Sword in the Tree, Clyde Robert Bulla
•Paddington Bear, Michael Bond
•Now We Are Six, A.A. Milne
Second Grade
•Little House Series, Laura Ingalls Wilder
•Stuart Little, E.B. White
•The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Beverly Cleary
•Roald Dahl Books
•The Thirteen Clocks, James Thurber
•Snow Treasure, Marie McSwigan
Third Grade
•The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White
•Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan
•Mr. Poppers Penguins, Richard Atwater
•The Thirteen Clocks, James Thurber
•The Tale of Desperaux, Kate DiCamillo
Fourth Grade
•Calico Captive, Elizabeth George Speare
•A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle
•Misty of Chincoteague Island, Marguerite Henry
•The Black Stallion, Walter Farley
•Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
•Benjamin West and his Cat Grimalkin, Marguerite Henry
Fifth Grade
•The Reluctant Dragon, Kenneth Grahame
•Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry; Mildred D. Taylor
•Little Lord Fauntleroy, Frances Hodgson Burnett
•Anne of Green Gables Series or Emily of New Moon Series, L.M. Montgomery
•Old Yeller, Fred Gipson
•Heidi, Johanna Spyri
•The Black Arrow, Robert Lewis Stevenson
Sixth Grade
•My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George
•Little Men, Louisa May Alcott
•White Fang, Jack London
•Redwall Series, Brian Jacques
•Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling
•The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Seventh Grade
•Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
•Watership Down, Richard Adams
•The Last of the Mohicans, James Fennimore Cooper
•The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien
Eighth Grade
•Ben Hur, Lew Wallace
•The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
•Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
•Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Ninth Grade
•The Odyssey, Homer (Required Summer Reading)
•My Ántonia, Willa Cather
•Billy Budd, Herman Melville
•The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
•Mythology, Edith Hamilton
Tenth Grade
•The Clouds, Aristophanes
•Odes, Horace
•Georgics, Virgil
•The Oresteia, Aeschylus
•The Women of Troy, Euripides
•More selections from Metamorphoses, Ovid
•Greek Lyric Poetry of Sapho, Xenophanes, Archilochus, etc.
Eleventh Grade
•Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
•The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
•The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
•And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
•Whose Body?, Dorothy Sayers
•Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
•All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
•Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Twelfth Grade
•The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
•A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Mark Twain
•Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot
•The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
