My Dad, trying to get my little sister to read when she was three or four, used to give her a quarter if she could pick out big words on the page. I guess you could say it backfired one morning when Dad was picking up a paper at a store near the park and my little sister started pointing at him and yelling "Pedophile! Pedophile!" until he gave her a quarter to shut her up. Seems she figured out a new word. Dad says he never could go back to that darn store.
Les