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Originally Posted by quietserena
 We decided to just say 'thank you' and not make a big deal out of it.
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sorry couldn't resist.
I started out with the no empty praise thing when my first DS was little. I was frantic that I would impede his artistic sensibilities by emptily (is that a word?) praising his scribbles. To my horror, it backfired. He never drew at all and in fact would get mad when servers in restaurants would give him crayons. 
As soon as I started dumping the empty-sounding (cause it's not really empty at all) praise upon him, he drew like a prodigy. Well, not really, but you get the point.
Since then, I've just decided to be myself.
