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“Too much global praise—when kids are frequently told that they are “great” or “terrific”—creates particular dangers. Such praise can train children to think that their essential value, their entire worth, is the issue in many contexts. Their selves always at stake, these children are prone to inflate their importance, both positively and negatively. The self acquires false credit and false dues, and these children can develop, as the psychologist Robert Karen notes, both a distorted, narcissistic picture of their value and a high vulnerability to shame.”
― The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development
― The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development
“all this work to buttress self-esteem and happiness not only makes children less capable of moral action—more self-occupied, less able to invest in others, more fragile, and less able to stand up for important values—but more likely to fret about their attractiveness, competence, or importance to others, more prone to worry and unhappiness.”
― The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development
― The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development
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