There's another aspect of praising.Parents, please praise your children for hard work and diligence and perseverance, not \"intelligence\" or \"talent\" or performing a task easily.http://brain21.net/blues/blog/?p=284https://www.stanford.edu/dept/psychology/cgi-bin/drupalm/system/files/Intelligence%20Praise%20Can%20Undermine%20Motivation%20and%20Performance.pdfhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-medina-phd/praising-childs-intelligence_b_773678.htmlI sincerely believe if I had been praised for the correct things in my early childhood, I would be a much better person today.