Praise..

I saw the title ' Praise turns child into bully' in the newspaper. It was in bold black letters and it immediately attracted my attention. What the small paragraph suggested was that parents should think twice before praising their children.  There has been research which shows that 'some children who bully have an over inflated sense of their own importance'. It mentions that there is a common misunderstanding that children who bully have a low self esteem.
A child psychologist has also commented saying that ''If you create a culture of entitlement, that's going to lead to them thinking they're entitled to anything and everything''.
It was interesting to me to see how the word ' Praise' has been casually used. For many parents reading this, it will be confusing. There is even a saying of some sort where it is said that if you praise children they will have a heavy head or something like that.
I wish such snippets would also have more details about what they understand by 'Praise'. On one side parents are told to praise to facilitate the development of self esteem in the child, on the other  hand they are told not to praise too much. This is done without going deep into the question as to 'what is praise?' or even ' why do we need praise' and if we do 'how can we praise'.
There is a need for us to take in what we read as a perspective, ask more questions, see how it works for us, how it makes sense to us and accept what we feel works .. keep revisiting to learn more.... keep exploring .......
" Experts can be wrong, and say things that sound right – so build a habit of evaluating new information and check it against things you already accept as fact".