Positive reinforcement: Why that can be punishment (how to do it right)

Many parents use it these days as an alternative to spanking and corporal punishment. It has its proper usage, but do you use it the right way as a parent. My abusive upbringing could be summed up with two acronyms. Clicker. Aware. That is not how positive reinforcement should go. As a child, I was abused in the name of "behavior".

The Greek root word denoting entitlement in the New Testament, and repeating the Fifth Commandment, is πλεονέκτης (Latin: pleonektés) and refers here to parental entitlement, or wanting children to do things, to the point of seeking to impose said want onto a child, leading to abuse by way of offense. This can include punitively testing for the right behavior, using children as experimental subject. 

"Punitive" means there is a punitive end to rewards charts and positive reinforcement, and and that is that they might not earn it. What do you do then? Give it to them anyway, and the whole thing is legal under biblical law. A non-punitive test is simply to test their skillset in terms of self-control.

I would use an incentive, such as a favorite food or place, with a child to get them to, say, behave better in school. But the incentive would be completely positive, meaning not backed up by any loss of privileges when benchmarks aren't met.

Let the punitive parents BURN in the lake of fire and burning sulfur, which is the second death prepared for Satan and his accomplices! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!