34 Praise kids for every little thing.
While withholding praise isn’t necessarily a great model for boosting confidence, grandparents who commend their grandchildren for every action, no matter how minor, aren’t doing them any favors in the long run, either. After all, how is a kid supposed to have realistic expectations about how the world at large will react to them when they’ve just been told they’re “exceptionally good at drinking water”?
