If a teacher rewards students' behavior or accomplishments with tangible rewards, before long students ask, "What will I get if I....?"
Pay your children for cleaning their rooms or doing normal chores and it won't take long before they want payment for everything they do.
Unfortunately, many adults have come to expect things for little or no effort too. Somewhere along the way they lost the idea of personal responsibility or working to earn what they want.
I watched a television news spot where a woman was shouting questions to a presidential candidate. She was asking about his views on women's health issues and her last shouted question was did he support free birth control. The "free" part surprised the candidate, and me. Where did this woman get the idea that something like that could be free? It must be produced, packaged, shipped, stored, and distributed. Costs are incurred all along the way and must be paid if we want additional product.
A depressingly large number of people seem to believe that the "government" gives money, services, and products away. Not true. They use money taken from other people. It is so wrong that we can work for many years, save all we can, invest carefully when we're able, and live always within our means only to have our own government demand a fat percentage of what we have so it can be given to someone who choses not to do those things. As if a circumstance (self-inflicted or not) entitles one to someone else's earnings.
Sunshine is free, but not much else is.
7 comments:
the government uses our money...lol!
I am always intrigued by your posts, and I couldn't agree with this one more!
Wow! I was with you in the first half, but found myself questioning the second half. Life is not equal. Circumstance...happenstance sometimes creates the whole scenario regardless of whether one works hard or not. Just my thoughts.
Gosh.. I agree with you in most things, but I'm thinking we have to help those who are less fortunate. Unfortunately, there are some who would take advantage of the system.
Funny you should write about this topic while I'm still feeling a bit huffy as a result of a young relative's post on Facebook. Apparently her parents have just bought themselves a new car, so their child, about to leave for college, posted, "So now it's my turn to get a new car. I won't want to travel to and from college in the one I'm driving now." if I'd ever dared expect anything other than food and shelter from my parents, I'd have been set straight awfully fast! You're right, we live in a society of entitlement nowadays.
Ou mentioned that I'd made the third row of my scarf pattern sound a little scary. It's not. Honest! Just place markers after the first four rows, then the next 18 rows, then the final our rows. Keep these markers at these points during the entire knitting of the scarf. They'll keep you on track. The pattern is quite simple, honest.
Right on. As a mom, I always try to notice when Logan is (or is not) intrinsically motivated to do something. He will happily clean his room, brush his teeth, cooperate in school, unload the dishwasher, and do a myriad of other things without any push from me. When he is already intrinsically motivated, I don't provide any reward. I only use external motivators when I really need to get him on board with something he isn't already doing. I hope that helps him not become an entitled adult. I'll let you know how it worked in 20 years.
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