BE PROMPT TO PRAISE
While teachers and parents are still discussing whether the bestowal of praise on a child is an incentive for further accomplishment or a source of conceit and swellheadedness, psychologists and psychoanalysts are doing their utmost to convince our generation that just approbation and sincere praise are essential to the progress and wellbeing of our youth.
We certainly agree that praise must be bestowed with caution and prudence; above all it must be sincere and just. But we can hardly condone the niggardly way in which it is at present being doled out at home, in school, in industry, and in society.
History records countless cases of men and women who struggled through a life-time f obscurity, and fought bravely, but in vain. History also records that these same authors, composers and scientists have after their death been hailed as men of great genius. The newspapers mourned their death and orators warmed eloquent in recounting their achiements.
Says Berton Brayley:
More than fame and more than money
Is the comment kind and sunny,
And the hearty, warm approval of a friend;
For it gives to life a savour,
And it makes us stronger, braver.
Yes, it gives us heart ad courage to the end.
History however fails to record the life story of those who struggled and for lack of support and encouragement fell back, never to rise again.
And obvious though it is, we fail to see that life could be so much brighter and happier if we were as ready to praise as we are to condemn, as quick to smile as we are to scowl, as eager to approve and applaud as we are to discourage and despise.
We don’t mince words when we tell a person how much we dislike him or her; yet our admiration even of our best friends is strictly guarded from them. Individuals have been known to resort to every artifice to find out what their friends and admirers think and say of them; but the vast majority of us have to be content with eulogies spoken over our corpses and etched in marble over our graves. It is perhaps not too much to hope that even in our own life-time conditions will alter and people will learn to say with the poet, Berton Brayley:
If he earns your praise, bestow it!
If you like him, let him know it!
Let the words of true encouragement be said.
So not wait till life is over,
And he’s underneath the clover,
For he cannot read the tombstone when he’s dead!
Be quick to praise and slow to censure, and you will be surprised at the change in your home, offive and club. Give praise where it is due; but, what’s more important, give it promptly!
THINK BIG!
If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don’t;
If you’d like to win, but think you can’t,
It’s almost a cinch you wom’t.
Life’s battles don ‘t always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late, the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can!
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