If you thought praising another child's effort would kindle a desire in your child to put in more effort, read the following conversation which quite took a tangent.
Ananya sits next to Samvit and her book landed into his bag one day. Looking at her neat handwriting and hoping for the obvious I said " Ananya's writing is very neat, take a look."
"Yes, it is very neat."
"You should see Sri Krishna's writing, it is neater. And do you know, Achuta's writing is better than our teacher's. Even Shreyas writes very neatly. You should also see ....."
