Your Encouraging Words
Your encouraging words for kids can help them thrive in school and life! How do your words matter?
Positive words from parents, teachers, and mentors are a rich source of internal motivation and guidance to children and teens. Often, kids recall your words of encouragement for years to come.
Encouraging Words Vs. Praise
- Be Honest. Children are the first to recognize when your words are not sincere. ...
- Focus on Effort, Not Ability. ...
- Be Specific. ...
- Avoid the Need to Compare. ...
- Don't Over-Encourage.
- Don't Use Encouragement to Control
By Marilyn Price-Mitchell, PhDCOMPASS-
