Five Reasons to Stop Saying "Good Job!"

[MummyNaomi]

Oh Heaven - great thread

Funnily enough I've had this clip bookmarked for a few months now, I stumbled across it from the API (attachement parenting international) facebook page and the clip really gives some insight into how children react to the way we deliver praise, I actually really identify with the logic they explain in the clip

We try to limit "good boy" and instead acknowledge the 'things' or 'skills' DS shows, learns etc - eg instead of saying 'Good Boy' when DS eats his dinner, we might say "Mummy is really proud that you ate all your vegetables", or a simple "Thanks for eating all your dinner tonight". Anyway, there is a whole series of discussion points in the form of You Tube clips from the same series that are really interesting, another here

However, I often catch myself parrotting off 'good boy', it seems to roll off the tongue WAY too easily