Feedback Strategies for the youth
Week3
The Difference between Praise and Feedback
By: Mindshift
In this article I read it opened my eyes to a bunch of new ideas and ways to think. Although at the moment I don't have any children this article I can use with my younger family and for my future children. I see in ways myself in this article from the child perspective but instead my mother did more of telling me that even though I did well in school I always could do better. I wish I was like these children where everything they do no matter how bad or good they get the praising response from their parent. Instead my feedback was more of the kind this article is saying children actually need. In the article they are challenging parents to show children more attention and to actually give them useful feed back like, "You made a great touchdown today. How long did it take you to get that route down in order to lose your defender." And not feedback like, "Great touchdown you're the best wide reciever on the team". The difference between those two sentences of feedback is the first sentence is actually praising the effort or strategy your child put into his route running. While the second one is less of a process they can actually grow from but a comment that makes them think I have no room for improvement and there's not a lot I can do to get better if my Dad or Mom already said I am the best. I understand the difference and will be sure to apply this to my everyday life and in the future with my children and in my education. This type of feedback will help me allow others to grow and actually show them I care with true feedback.
