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Punished By Rewards: The Trouble With Gold Stars by Kohn Alfie
Category: Parenting Pregnancy Childbirth
A landmark psychological critique of basic motivational strategy, this book attacks the strategy of dangling incentives in front of people to affect their behavior.
Punished by Rewards - The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, a's, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn
Category: Health and Wellbeing
Alfie Kohn's landmark challenge to carrot-and-stick psychology, featuring updated reflections and research in a major new afterword by the authorOur basic strategy for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summed up in six words: Do this and you'll get that. We dangle goodies ...Show more
The Homework Myth : Why Our Children Get Too Much of a Bad Thing by Alfie Kohn
Category: Parenting
This work is a compelling expose of homework - its negative effects, why it's so widely accepted, and what we can do about it.Whilst they're free of many of the worries of adulthood, one of the inevitable downsides faced by kids is the idea that after spending the day at school, they must complete more ...Show more
The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Coddled Kids, Helicopter Parents, and Other Phony Crises by Alfie Kohn
Category: Parenting
A prominent and esteemed critic challenges widely held beliefs about children and parenting, revealing that underlying each myth is a deeply conservative ideology that is, ironically, often adopted by liberal parents. Somehow a set of deeply conservative assumptions about children what they re like and ...Show more
Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason by Alfie Kohn
Category: Pregnancy
This book presents a provocative challenge to the conventional wisdom of raising children. Author of nine books, including the controversial Punished by Rewards, Kohn expands upon the theme of what's wrong with our society's emphasis on punishments and rewards with regards raising children. Kohn, the f ...Show more
What to Look for in a Classroom - ... and Other Essays by Alfie Kohn
Category: Education
"Alfie Kohn has a knack for bursting the bubbles that surround justabout every school topic imaginable, from putting kids intouniforms to make them behave better to raising kids' self-esteem byrewarding them with stickers and pizza for reading books and doinghomework. This collection of previously publi ...Show more
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