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“Good Job!” “I was trained to make my mother happy. . . . [I am] addicted to attention, acclaim, validation.”—Howard Stern “Hate to break it to you . . .” So read the subject line of a mass email from my friend Ana. (This is way back in 2007, before everyone and their mother turned to social media to spread the good—or bad—word.) “Read and weep!” she wrote and attached an article from Parents magazine called “Hooked on Praise,” by Alfie Kohn, a ruckus-making scholar in the worlds of education, parenting, and beyond. Even though I only had a precious few minutes left to get stuff done before Jules awoke from her nap, I was curious to see what news was so bad that Ana hated to break it to me—and all the other new-parent friends she’d cc’d. I quickly skimmed the article, hoping I’d land on just the right sentences that would tell me whatever I needed to know—it seems nothing makes a person more ADD than having a baby. Scanning, I gathered that, contrary to popular belief, our national habit of saying “Good job!” to kids is not only not helpful, but it can be manipulative and can actually turn them into “praise junkies.” Praise junkies? I thought skeptically. Really? Isn’t that oversta

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Author

Lehr, Jennifer

Publisher

Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780761181514

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Gender Studies, Psychology, Fiction

Rating

3.85 / 5 (30 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14