I read about this study on Mom-101 (during a middle of the night feeding) and considered it… how do you praise your child for his efforts and not his talents? Hmmm, sounds hard.
Today I read it in its entirety and consider this piece from NY Magazine required reading in my house: The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids
[…] magazine is good until age 5. And that also gives me a chance to 1) practice my restraint and 2) praise him for his efforts and not just his talents (the verb and not the […]
[…] Thinking About Children in the fall because once upon a time I wrote a tiny blog post about “praising the verb and not the noun” when talking to […]
A commenter on my site had a great pov: Praise the verb, not the noun.
I think of psycho little league dads who only praise kids for winning and not for trying and that pretty much sums it up for me.