Skip rewards and subtract distractions for desired behaviour

Enticements towards desired behaviour are often the choice of parents. Do your chores without fighting and you get a treat. Put your device away and we'll reward you. This is additive, and possibly counter productive. When you don't put the device away, then the dangled treat disappears. Then you're almost double punished. You likely get in trouble for not getting off the device, and you don't get the dangled reward. Instead how about not charging the device, then you can't use it. I do this subtraction method for desired behaviour in myself. I try to not have cookies and other treats in the house because my willpower is low and I'll just eat them. I'll look at fruit and grab a cookie or chocolate. Then I'll go back and have more cookies until they're gone. I recognize that eating all the cookies isn't what I want to do, but still I do it. The same thing happens for many with devices. We don't want to spend our time scrolling, yet the device is in our pocket so we spend time…