I am curious how other people feel about rewards. I stay away from them in most cases of child development. It is my training and experience that children have their own internal drive to develop and adults should not create an exterior motivation. This takes the delight and joy away from the child’s personal process.
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Rewards for potty training?
Thoughts on praise by experts Faber and Mazlish
Since my last post on praise, I have been reading, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, by bestselling authors and child experts, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish.
The authors offer an important chapter on praise, which I highly recommend. They provide many more details, exercises, and examples than I [...]
How to effectively praise your child
We all want our children to feel successful, capable, and confident. Children look to the adults in their lives for emotional cues, beginning as infants. Before the autonomic nervous system has developed, the baby looks to her primary caregiver for cues on her emotional state (arousal, recuperation, fight or flight, etc). Since we are often [...]