"Paying (kids) for good behavior is worth every penny" Uh, really?

 The following article is by a columnist who very much disagrees!

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/11/30/2483758/living-with-children.html

Only thing I wonder about is, why has the columnist, in past years,
made it sound as though kids are entitled to a no-strings allowance?
After all, if it's OK for poor parents to tell their kids they have to
work for all their money (AND do unpaid chores, I assume) why isn't it
OK for richer parents to do that?

Lenona.

  In article


Utter nonsense. I think kids who get an allowance and/or gifts from
their parents without doing something to earn their allowance and gifts
become spoiled brats.

I do not have kids, but I am a god parent of four young kids. My
11-year-old god daughter and I have a deal. She is terrible at math, so
for her birthday, I told her I would buy her a new iPod touch if she
pulls up her math grade to a B+ by the time her birthday, which is in
three weeks. She hemmed and hawed with me about that, but at the end of
the day, her math grade is now a B+. If she keeps it up for another
three weeks, she will be getting an iPod touch from me. If her math
grade sinks below a B+, I will still buy her a birthday gift, but it
will not be anything elaborate.