Reply To: Boy going to shul

Just to clarify:

1) This boy is very mature. He understood from the first that this was temporary.

2) They live in an OOT community where the nearest shul is pretty far from their home and there are few children who go to shul. He really needed incentive to go, or he wouldn’t have in the first place. The father merely didn’t want to have him walk 4+ miles each Shabbos both ways before he was able to handle it, which is why he started this late. The family will be moving within a year, to a place with a closer shul, so this will soon become a moot point b”h.

3) The reward is really that 20 points means a day off of school, another 20 points means, say, bowling THAT DAY, another 20 points means pizza, etc. As such he has only had 2 of these days, which fall more into the category of “mental health days”.

4) I’m not butting in to someone else’s business. This family is very close to me, though not actually related.

The question was really the age at which a boy should go to shul and whether bribery/incentive is a bad way to get him to go.

Thanks!