Want your kids to grow up confident and successful?
Be careful about how you praise them, says toxic-parenting researcher Jennifer Breheny Wallace.
"Noticing other people's strengths, and acknowledging them, makes people around us feel like they matter," she tells CNBC Make It.
Spotlighting kids' honesty, creativity and other positive attributes often helped them grow in emotionally healthy ways, Wallace's research found.
People become "stronger and more mature, less by being praised and more by being known," she recalls Weissbourd saying.
Persons:
Jennifer Breheny Wallace, Wallace, Richard Weissbourd, Weissbourd
Organizations:
CNBC, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
Locations:
U.S