[canadaduane]

Enthusiasm can be shown in several ways. One interesting tidbit from psychological research is that praising children's results often leads to their own paralysis. Instead, parents should praise how hard they tried.

See Berkeley's Half Full blog:

http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/raising_happiness/post/the_r...

[michael_dorfman]

I'm familiar with that research, and agree with the techniques.

In this case, though, it wasn't that I praised her-- just that I got excited about how cool Scratch was. Suddenly, it wasn't that cool to her anymore.

Similarly, she also hates the Beatles. I mean, how is that even possible?

[mgarfias]

I hate the beatles.