“This One Thing Boosts Kids’ Self-Esteem, Science Says—and it’s Not Praise” by Claire Gillespie is an article in Readers Digest. This article suggests we let our kids see the value of failure. They don’t’ argue that one should never praise their child though, in fact, they begin by stating that naturally, parents want to encourage their children, and state that there is even advice that they should! For example, a parent should certainly praise their children when potty-training. I can relate this to our class discussions on how praise is needed. In Chapter Four on Parenthood Education we learned if children live with praise, they learn appreciation and if children live with recognition, they learn it is good to have a goal. We learned children are hard-wired to get the approval of parents. …show more content…
It talks about how children are born without a sense of self, but quickly learn. Some children have a confident sense of self, while others may self-doubt more. I could relate this to our discussions about how children are born with different temperaments. In Chapter Two we learned about children’s characteristics and temperament is one of them. The article discusses how children’s social relationships are integral in forming views about themselves and supports this claim with the research that has found that kids who have a warm, loving relationship with their parents develop higher self-esteem. I can relate this to Gilinsky’s six Stages of Parent Development in Chapter 1 of the textbook. The first stage is image