We totally bribe our almost 3yo. Stickers, sprinkles on her dinner, Peanut Butter M&M's...... shameless! Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do 
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We will totally bribe. If she understood it now, girlfriend would be sleeping through the night, and mama would be spending a lot of $ on candy!
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Yes. I mentioned it to my pediatrician and his response was "well, I personally am not in favor of negotiating with little terrorists, but you gotta do what you gotta do...." lol
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@yoursilverlining: My sister is a professional political operative and she joked that she should hire E to do her negotiations.... changes the terms constantly!
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Who doesn't?
Not daily, but when there's a need, we find a way
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@prettylizy: Toddlers are masters are negotiations....because they hold all the cards! Oh you don't want a meltdown in the middle of the store mom...well, pass over the bribe then!!
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Yes!! He's obsessed with Altoids mints and chocolate chips so I will bribe him with one now and again. "If you eat your dinner you can have a chocolate chip!" It works great!
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Yes! I never knew how effective it was until I tried it.
@yoursilverlining: LOL little terrorists indeed! -
We used to like crazy, but it snowballed so we had to cut way, way back!
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A little. I think my last one was with veggies and attending her friend's party the next day. It worked.
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We don't for every day things though for dinner we do usually have dessert after so she only gets dessert if she eats dinner. I'm not sure if that's a bribe or not. I find them really useful in teaching something new. Like potty training or learning to read. Sometimes I have trouble focusing Lo long enough but if there's a reward system she pays attention a lot longer.
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I'm going to start bribing my kid to nap at daycare.
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Hmm bribing is so evil...we use incentives
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"You can have two jellybeans if you....." Is how I start most sentences for our 32 month old. So, yeah.
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@mediagirl: oh no she's not napping there?! I tried bribing for naps and that's one thing that it doesn't work for!
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Are there people who don't bribe? I just bribed my daughter with 62 cents to get her to put her coat on.
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Yup, usually for dinner time ("If you try a bite of dinner, you can watch Peppa Pig later...").
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All the time.
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Only if things get harried. Like at a wedding, I will give them candy to keep them quiet! Or once I told them they could get a new beanie boo if they were good at another event.
More often I find myself pulling the "you won't get a story if..." route, taking things away instead of sweetening the pot. Seems to work for my kiddos!
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Any parent who says they don't is a liar!
Really, though, sometimes we have to!
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Absolutely! Incentive makes the world go 'round! I asked a child psychologist about it, and he was all for it, and asked me, 'do people go to work out of the goodness of their hearts, or for their paychecks?
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all day, every day. (really that's not much of an exaggeration...)
@erinpye: exactly! i've always said life is one big bribe!
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I don't, but DH bribes/negotiates with DS and it drives me crazy...because it DOESN'T work! "If you eat all your chicken nuggets...you can have a cookie." Then he goes and gives him the cookie anyway. I told him at dinner tonight that we need to tighten it up and stop doing that! We meaning he.
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