Alfie Kohn

Punished by Rewards: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition by Alfie Kohn presents a compelling critique of the traditional carrot-and-stick approach to motivation and behaviour management. The book explores an enlightening narrative through a wealth of research and real-world examples, challenging widely accepted practices in parenting, education, and management. Kohn argues that conventional reward systems, equating to ‘do this, and you’ll get that’,...

The Myth of the Spoiled Child by Alfie Kohn delves deep into the pervasive and often misguided beliefs surrounding modern parenting and children's behaviour. In this insightful and provocative book, Kohn systematically dismantles the widely held notion that today's youth are overindulged, narcissistic, and suffer from an inflated sense of self-esteem. He reveals that these opinions are not new but...

The author of Punished by Rewards and The Schools Our Children Deserve returns with a provocative challenge to the conventional ways of raising children. Kohn argues that all children have the need to be loved unconditionally, yet conventional approaches to parenting, such as punishment and reward, teach children that they are loved only when they please and impress parents. Kohn...

Alfie Kohn has a knack for bursting the bubbles that surround just about every school topic imaginable, from putting kids into uniforms to make them behave better to raising kids' self-esteem by rewarding them with stickers and pizza for reading books and doing homework. This collection of previously published essays reminds us that many schools have veered off course in...