I think I've learned more about parenting from books on economic development than I have on books in the parenting section.

The supply/demand sided arguments permeate child rearing.

Principal agent problems? Spend enough time with kids and you'll realize that you share the rolls of principal and agents with each other. Not so much adverse selection in the beginning, neither side knew much about each other prior to formation of the relationship.

Need more money to throw at RCTs? There's probably a lot of survivor/persistence bias due to all your previous attempts. There's DMR to throwing money at problems; plus, you don't want to increase chances at causing additional principal agent problems due to changing values.

You're worried about motivating your kids to do stuff? Rewards don't necessarily work, kids have no idea what's in their best interest. It's a behavioral economist's worst nightmare (or wet dream?).

Rewards a foot in the door. Give them and congrats, you've established a wage.

Institutions are hugely important. You've got to have resilient but malleable institutions. These are difficult create on your own and work better if you have prior experience with good ones (from your own childhood.) Most parenting books skimp on the inst. building

Authoritative parenting and permissive parenting are too tight and too loose, respectively. Both create terrible incentives. You've gotta find something in the middle that treats kids as free-willed, economic agents who lack human capital and organizational skills

Every action you take is met with Bayesian updating on their end. They know you all too well, they're the IR experts in this relationship.