Yes! Bets – and even just ‘modeling’ owning-up to being wrong – are wonderful tools, especially for children (as they haven’t learned that most people avoid them).
This ‘area’ came up (in my mind) most recently in a disagreement about something my child was taught in school. We didn’t bet tho and the outcome turned out to neither fully support either ‘side’ – but that’s a good opportunity too for learning about disagreement and updating on new evidence.
I haven’t yet spotted an opportunity for using ‘bonds’ but now I’ll look for them even more vigorously!
I do think there is some risk with this approach that the child will have a bad time just to get the money, or say they are having a bad time and they are actually not, but this isn’t something we’ve run into.
I’ve run into this – in ‘pre-bet’ circumstances – but it seemed easy enough to ‘strategically dissuade’ by expressing skepticism of their sentiments; that’s resulted in honest confessions the few times it’s come up.
Yes! Bets – and even just ‘modeling’ owning-up to being wrong – are wonderful tools, especially for children (as they haven’t learned that most people avoid them).
This ‘area’ came up (in my mind) most recently in a disagreement about something my child was taught in school. We didn’t bet tho and the outcome turned out to neither fully support either ‘side’ – but that’s a good opportunity too for learning about disagreement and updating on new evidence.
I haven’t yet spotted an opportunity for using ‘bonds’ but now I’ll look for them even more vigorously!
I’ve run into this – in ‘pre-bet’ circumstances – but it seemed easy enough to ‘strategically dissuade’ by expressing skepticism of their sentiments; that’s resulted in honest confessions the few times it’s come up.