good job!

11 November 2007

From a hilarious mommy blog I just started reading:

I don’t want to sound like some sort of Alfie Kohn acolyte, but Nora and I spent some time at a busy playground recently and some parents really need to cool it on the “good jobs.” Good job swinging! Good job going down the slide! Good job, inertia! Good job, gravity! Then Nora and I went to lunch where I overheard a kid get good-jobbed for drinking all of his chocolate milk. What kid needs to be self-esteemed into finishing chocolate milk? Good job, sugar! Way to taste delicious!

Praise, especially of this verbal-tic variety, spins me up. mimi smartypants perfectly captures its ridiculousness.

One Response to “good job!”

  1. 1 Carrie
    November 25th, 2007 at 2:56 pm

    Great quote! I always wonder as well why people are congratulating gravity or the way our intestines work.