Once you start to see praise for what it is--and what it does--these constant little evaluative eruptions from adults start to produce the same effect as fingernails being dragged down a blackboard. You begin to root for a child to give his teachers or parents a taste of their own treacle by turning around to them and saying (in the same saccharine tone of voice), "Good praising!"
~ Alfie Kohn ~
I LOVE this. How we cheapen things with words sometimes... Am totally passing along. Thank you for sharing.
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