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by Gikoskos 2574 days ago
Can you find this article and post it please? I have to show it to someone
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Here are some articles from 2009 that mention Alfie Kohn, who wrote "Punished by Rewards."

https://www.leanblog.org/2009/01/leanblog-podcast-57-alfie-k...

http://www.blog.montessoriforeveryone.com/are-kids-punished-...

This article also looks like a likely candidate for the OP: https://www.parentingscience.com/praise-and-intelligence.htm...

Kohn goes a long way further. Don't praise your children just for "working" hard either -- that's just encouraging them to seek your external validation.

Instead, help nurture your children's own curiosity, interest, and experience in the things that they do.

Stop treating them like lab rats to be conditioned with praise, because we know exactly what happens when that praise inevitably ceases.

It sounds a lot like Carol Dweck's book Mindset, or one of the many articles about having a growth rather than fixed mindset.
I think this article is about the study about that topic which started it all:

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/14/science/praise-children-f...

Thanks for the link.

''Praising children's intelligence, far from boosting their self-esteem, encourages them to embrace self-defeating behaviors such as worrying about failure and avoiding risks,''

This is arguably good advice regarding 5th graders. For adult software engineers, however, go ahead and praise them for being smart, since worrying about software failure and avoiding software risks is great.

Try searching for the "Pygmalion Effect on children ", it covers the general principle. (I suggest ignoring the Wikipedia article as it is very narrowly focused.)
I read the Grit book and it talked about having high expectations. I had never heard of this Pygmalion effect before. Thank you for sharing. Here is the article I just found on it

https://www.wisdomtimes.com/blog/the-pygmalion-effect-at-hom...

If you can suggest a better one, I would be grateful.