{"id":11409,"date":"2013-07-24T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=11409"},"modified":"2013-07-24T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T10:00:14","slug":"money-for-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=11409","title":{"rendered":"Money for Medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of strategies parents use to get their kids to read. Some have timers, some promise treats or toys, but yesterday I heard a new one. A mom came in with her two kids &#8212; a boy who was 11, and a girl who was about 8. These kids were nice, polite and seemed very well versed <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/medal-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11410\" alt=\"medal\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/medal-2.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a>in books, especially the Newbery Award winners.<br \/>\nIt turns out the mom paid the kids $5 for every Newbery medal book they read in the past year. These kids have been reading up a storm and collecting a small fortune at the same time. I asked if the $5 only applied to the medal winners, or did Honor books count as well. &#8220;Now, they&#8217;ll get $5 for book with a shiny sticker,&#8221; the mom said. \u00a0So, these kids can read an honor book, a National Book award winner, or finalist and when they&#8217;re oler, the Printz award winners.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not really sure how I feel about kids getting money to read. This is a slippery slope that might wind up being counter-productive.\u00a0I can see a little bribe here or there turning into kids not reading anything unless they get some cold, hard cash. Let&#8217;s face it, some people just don&#8217;t like to read, and why is that okay for adults, but not kids? \u00a0The flip side of this argument is, these two kids have read some pretty amazing books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have mixed thoughts on a parent paying her children to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}