Jump to ContentEncouraging Your Child to Learn
Encouragement is the promotion of a sound idea or a helpful behaviour by virtue of explaining what a child has done right. It is seeing all mistakes as opportunities to learn and all correct behaviours as opportunities to encourage. We don’t gloss over mistakes, but we also don’t take for granted the beneficial aspects of what children do. A child who is taught with encouragement, is like a plant that has been given water and sunshine; it will thrive (Dreikurs). A child who has been denied encouragement is a child who is starving for acceptance of who they are by virtue of what they have done.
Encouragement is different from praise. Encouragement is a reflection of beneficial activity, whereas praise is about the person rather than the deed. In other words, don’t praise people, encourage behaviour.
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