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Practical Tips on Helping Kids to Persevere - a way of motivating children is to require them to earn certain special privileges, activities, or their allowance by successfully completing weekly tasks, which may include practicing the ocarina, doing chores, reading books, exercising, or whatever your family deems important. Younger children may respond best to more immediate rewards, i.e., making a snack or computer time or swimming (usually an activity that you would have done anyway) contingent upon completing the ocarina lesson. Just placing a star on a chart can be very reinforcing to some children, not to mention some adults. In our family, we love to read together before bed. Knowing this gains me rapid compliance when I state that we have to have an ocarina lesson before we can read together. Rather than constituting bribery, I believe that these methods teach a child that responsibility precedes play and that hard work is required to reach one’s goals.