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Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

— Haim Ginott

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

— Al Green

We are teaching kids to fail. We need to teach our kids to succeed.

— John Catsimatidis

I find most children quite inspiring.

— Bjork

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

— John Madden

I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.

— Rosalind Wiseman

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

— Elizabeth Edwards

More than anything, we must do better for our children's education.

— Cory Booker

✗Opposing Perspectives

We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.

— J. K. Simmons

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

— Elias Canetti