Jan
30
“Where’s My Pizza Party?” (Should We be Praising Kids for Every Little thing They Do?)
Posted By: Toni Vitanza
Category: Kids' Self-Esteem, Over-praising Kids, School
Comments: 12
A couple of years ago, I spent a great part of a school year substituting in sixth-grade classrooms. In our district, this is the first year of middle school. To this day, I’ve never visited the elementary schools from where these students come. But I can guess that they’re full of teachers with bags of candy, gold stars, little (or big) charts with smiley stickers, and pizza parties for the class that gathers the largest number of cans for the food drive. I can guess that these teachers are really worried about making these kids all feel “good” about themselves.
