How To Reward Children?

How can praise and reward affect children's development?

• Answer:

  Well in some ways it can be good and some ways it can be bad. Too much praise and reward could allow the child to feel as though they're able to get anything they want therefore it creates a bratty and selfish attitude. But praising and rewarding your child for something you feel they need to be praised for allows them to feel as though they're safe and protected and also allows them to feel that whatever they did was right and are most likely to achieve that again. Socially, the child will most likely feel safer, happier and more protected when they're with the person who has praised them. Intellectually the child will develop their understanding of what they were praised for and this praising will allow them to develop their understanding of right and wrong. Emotionally the child will feel happier and more confident in how they go about things knowing right and wrong. Hopefully this helps :)