What's best: praise or encouragement?? What's the difference?
This is a good video to watch as we begin to think about how we are responding to our kid's attempts at negotiating their path in the world. If you read this article, after watching, you will see a chart that makes the distinction between praise and encouragement a bit clearer. Ultimately, encouragement really focuses on building in our kids the intrinsic desire to constantly put in effective effort in everything they do; where as praise focuses on competition and the idea that there are winners and losers and there is nothing your kids can do to change from being a loser to being a winner.
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