Child development: The right kind of early praise predicts positive attitudes toward effort

Child development: The right kind of early praise predicts positive attitudes toward effort: The findings, published in the paper "Parent Praise to 1-3 Year Olds Predicts Children's Motivational Frameworks 5 years Later," are the first to show the impact of parents' praise in a naturalistic setting. The study is published on-line in the journal Child Development and was conducted by researchers from Stanford as well as the University of Chicago.