PSYchology

As a parenting model, the carrot and stick is a common but controversial model.

It seems that this is the most natural thing: to reward for a good deed, to punish, scold for a bad deed. In principle, this is reasonable, but there are also disadvantages: this system requires the constant presence of the educator, the “stick” destroys the contact between the child and the educator, and the “carrot” teaches the child not to do good without a reward … The model is controversial if it turns out not to be auxiliary, but the main one. The work of education goes better if the method of rewards and punishments is supplemented by the method of negative and positive reinforcements, and preference is given to positive reinforcements and reinforcement not so much of desirable external actions as of desirable internal states and relationships. In any case, it is useful to remember that real education goes far beyond training.

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