{"id":40,"date":"2007-02-17T12:03:23","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T12:03:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-03-30T07:59:35","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T13:59:35","slug":"proper-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/40","title":{"rendered":"Proper praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good article on the proper use of praise. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.printthis.clickability.com\/pt\/cpt?action=cpt&#038;title=The+Power+%28and+Peril%29+of+Praising+Your+Kids+--+New+York+Magazine&#038;expire=&#038;urlID=21157633&#038;fb=Y&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fnymag.com%2Fnews%2Ffeatures%2F27840%2F&#038;\">(Click here for article).<\/a><br \/>\n     No, not that \u201ccontemporary worship\u201d kind of \u201cpraise\u201d (which isn\u2019t much of praise at all, but that\u2019s a different rant\u2026).  The article re-iterates what we\u2019ve know from previous research: unconditional praise is less effective than conditional praise. <\/p>\n<p>This one centers around the current propensity among teacher and parents to \u201cpraise\u201d their kids unconditionally about \u201cbeing smart.\u201d Often a poorly disguised attempt at creating a self-fulfilling prophecy if not a poorly disguised symptom of parental anxiety. Previous research around the same phenomenon had to do with praise about children\u2019s behavior (\u201cYou\u2019re such a good girl.\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re such a well-behaved boy.\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>One can wonder how this phenomenon translates into the realm of faith formation. Is unconditional praise in areas focused on spirituality as detrimental to faith as are unconditional praise focused on traits like \u201cintelligence\u201d or behavior? <br \/>\n<%image(20070217-IGMatrix100.jpg|100|131|From inside the Matrix)%><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good article on the proper use of praise. (Click here for article). No, not that \u201ccontemporary worship\u201d kind of \u201cpraise\u201d (which isn\u2019t much of praise at all, but that\u2019s a different rant\u2026). The article re-iterates what we\u2019ve know from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/40\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}