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Good grades come at a price, and that price is hard work, commitment, and self discipline. If you are a parent and you find yourself lucky enough to have a child who seems to excel at their school work, and achieving the highest grades in the class, you will be proud of your clever offspring. Perhaps you come from a family of high achievers and automatically expect your child to do well because of it?

Although you may feel that your child has been given a natural gift and high intelligence is something that your family is just born with, you may forget to reward your child. This could lead him/her to grow despondent and may cause them to feel that their hard work is for nothing. The cleverest of people can always benefit from that extra bit of praise and encouragement or motivation to encourage them to carry on doing well.

It can be argued that there are also so many intelligent people in this world who have the ability to do well, and they throw it away through a lack of hard work. Money is a parental tool. It can be given to children as pocket money when they have been good, and taken away when they have been bad. Money to children is the currency for enjoyment, in the form of toys, treats, and it enables them to go out with their friends, and appreciate the value of money. As much as people don't want to believe that money can buy happiness, it does certainly help to put you on the right road towards it.

Although it is important to show love towards your offspring on an everyday basis, it can be argued that in terms of motivation this may not always be enough. Combine a lot of love with a bit of cash at a critical time , and you may have found the answer to your child's success.

Try not to use money as a form of bribery, but rather use it as a reward, which the child may hope they might receive if they continue to do well. When I was young, my mother offered me $100 if I passed a very important exam I had been preparing for. At the time this was rather a lot of money so it could be argued that this possibly was not a good idea, because when the exam was near I was worrying about both what grade I would get, and worried about losing my $100 dollars.

However, in the long run I still suspected this method to be a form of positive bribery, and if you must know, it worked and I passed, and so did my three brothers. Whether this form of reward can be seen as bribery to do well' and is a result of good or bad parenting is questionable. I am not a naturally clever person,

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