Parenting And Encouragement

How does encouragement help my child?

As children grow and they're improving in learning, getting better and better, and gaining more and more skills, you want to continually acknowledge their success. Think about it. If parents do it the old way and they don't acknowledge a child's success, then the child has no feedback loop, has no way of knowing was that right. "Did I do it OK?" If you don't reassure them with their choices, their positive choices, then they're not going to be making those choices. They're going to be all over the place. So, you want to constantly, daily, be saying "That's a good choice", day in and day out; "You made a good choice there."