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Re:High-School Shop Students Attract Skilled-Trades Job Offers by __s on Monday May 12, 2025 @08:04AM (#43962050)
Re life lesson, simple study was effective: praise effort over results
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Re:High-School Shop Students Attract Skilled-Trades Job Offers by antisthenes on Monday May 12, 2025 @02:37PM (#43966185)
At some point you need actual results. Otherwise people will very quickly start abusing it by saying "I tried" and walking away from problems.
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Re:High-School Shop Students Attract Skilled-Trades Job Offers by __s on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @03:29AM (#43970442)
Yes, sorry I wrote short. The praise was about when the child achieves something you yse language like "you worked hard to succeed there" rather than "you're so talented to succeed there"

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6176062

(& this supports your point somewhat in that unconditional praise is also suboptimal)

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