Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.

How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?

When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.

How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.

Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.

Sometimes we have to put our foot down, ... but before we deliberately make children unhappy in order to get them to get into the car, or to do their homework or whatever, we need to weigh whether what we're doing to make it happen is worth the possible strain on our relationship with them.

Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.