Comments on: Parenting: Don’t Praise Your Children! http://drjimtaylor.com/blog/2009/09/parenting-dont-praise-your-children/ Dr. Jim Taylor Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:36:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dr. Jim Taylor http://drjimtaylor.com/blog/2009/09/parenting-dont-praise-your-children/comment-page-1/#comment-312 Dr. Jim Taylor Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:47:22 +0000 http://drjimtaylor.com/blog/?p=131#comment-312 A commenter on this post over at psychologytoday.com: ?What I find most irritating, or downright worrisome, is the way in which some parents say "good job!" about things that represent no special achievement at all, like, say, a five-year-old going down a small slide on a playground... How are they supposed to learn what true achievement is when their moms seem to think that the smallest, most insignificant actions already merit such great praise? At best, they are training their child to feel accomplished about nothing, at worst, they are telling their children that they actually have extremely low expectations of them!? A commenter on this post over at psychologytoday.com: ?What I find most irritating, or downright worrisome, is the way in which some parents say “good job!” about things that represent no special achievement at all, like, say, a five-year-old going down a small slide on a playground…

How are they supposed to learn what true achievement is when their moms seem to think that the smallest, most insignificant actions already merit such great praise?

At best, they are training their child to feel accomplished about nothing, at worst, they are telling their children that they actually have extremely low expectations of them!?

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