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    This document outlines five reasons why the phrase "good job" should not be used as encouragement for children. It argues that saying "good job" can manipulate children, create praise junkies who rely on external validation, steal a child's pleasure in their own accomplishments, cause children to lose interest, and reduce achievement. The document provides alternatives to praise, such as narrating what you see, connecting accomplishments to character traits, emphasizing impact on others, asking open-ended questions, or saying nothing. It promotes using Positive, Descriptive Acknowledgments instead of praise.

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    This document outlines five reasons why the phrase "good job" should not be used as encouragement for children. It argues that saying "good job" can manipulate children, create praise junkies who rely on external validation, steal a child's pleasure in their own accomplishments, cause children to lose interest, and reduce achievement. The document provides alternatives to praise, such as narrating what you see, connecting accomplishments to character traits, emphasizing impact on others, asking open-ended questions, or saying nothing. It promotes using Positive, Descriptive Acknowledgments instead of praise.

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    TABITHA HANSON

    ECE210
    Homework
    Due 12/3/14

    FIVE REASONS
    Five reasons to you should not use good job as encouragement

    1. MANIPULATING
    CHILDREN
    Saying good job is like a sugar-coated control . When we say this its a
    way of doing something to children to get them to comply with our wishes.
    Young children are hungry for our approval, and will do whatever to get it.

    2. CREATING PRAISE
    JUNKIES
    Rather than bolstering a child's self esteem, praise may increase kids dependence on us. Kids
    will come to rely on us and they will start to not use their own judgment. They will measure
    their worth in terms of what will make us smile. Saying good job tends to make children feel
    less secure. Most of these kids will grow into adults who need you to tell them they did ok.

    3. STEALING A CHILD'S
    PLEASURE
    Every time we tell a kid good job we are telling the child how we feel.
    Children deserve to take delight in their own accomplishments, feel pride on
    what they learned, and get to decide when they feel it. Saying good job is
    just like saying bad job

    4. LOSING INTEREST
    Kids tend to lose interest if you watch and praise them and then leave. The more we reward
    people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to
    get the reward. Young children who were frequently praised for displays of generosity tend to
    be slightly less generous on an everyday basis than other children. Praise motivates kids but it
    motivates them to do whatever they were doing to get praised.

    5.REDUCING
    ACHIEVEMENT
    Good job can undermine independence, pleasure, interest, it can also
    interfere with how good a job children actually do. Praise creates pressure
    to keep up the good work.

    WHAT SHOULD WE SAY?


    Say nothing
    Say what you saw
    Talk less, ask more

    OR SAY
    1.
    2.

    Re port what you see (narrating)

    Connect it with a desire character, trait, value or expectation(PDA)


    3.

    Emphasize the impact on others


    4.

    Ask open ended questions

    5.

    Say nothing

    PDA?
    PDA
    Positive, Descriptive Acknowledgment
    Ex. You cleaned up the blocks. You are keeping the area safe.

    THANK YOU
    The End

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