This works on younger kids that don’t yet understand why they should be doing something. And it only works for a short time. As someone said there is a time when everything needs to be about them, so doing something for “payment” or “privileges” instantly makes it about them and they’re more willing to do the task.
You want to talk about a game, parenting is a game. A constantly changing difficulty game where the AI behavior is randomly generated daily, and sometimes hourly. And even your own controls can change often.
