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Originally Posted by JamieLynn
Yes, reward is a much better word in this case! 
If you say it like: "If you clean your room, I will buy you ice-cream" That's bribing. But if you tell your son, "Go clean your room" and he eventually cleans it up all of his own and then you decide to take him out for ice-cream than it's a reward. Rewards are much better!
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That's right. Bribes are when you tell your child in advance what kind of behavior or expectations you want from a child, a reward are offered after the fact without telling a child in advance. It doesn't sends the wrong message to a child. 
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