Monday, August 29, 2011

Constructive praise

From Dan Galvin's Thought For The Day mailing list:

Nobody wants constructive criticism.  It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise.

2 comments:

Cynthia and the farm house said...

So true. However we need to adventure out past our roles as parents and at times give the view the outside sources would in a outside the home setting.

Henry Cate said...

Yes, our children will suffer less and grow more if we can help them while young, instead of them having to painfully learn a lesson from a society that doesn't care much about them.