Jill Kelly is an editor and writer I have the privilege of knowing. A post from one of her blogs, Sober Truths: The Making of an Honest Woman, so resonated with me that I'm quoting most all of it here:
Today I was editing a chapter from a book in progress on child development and parenting and came across this sentence in a discussion of why using rewards and punishments with children is a bad idea. "Using rewards teaches the child that the most important thing is to prolong pleasure—even at the expense of betraying yourself."
