Praise and compliments: When does it become too much?. “You did a great job!” Is this sentence nice or can it also be mean? Why praise and compliments are not always as good as they sound.

‘With children and young people, it is very important to praise the path,’ says Professor Michael Brohm of Teaching-Learning Research at the University of Manchester. � “We think it’s great how intensively involved you are,” says Petra Maier, author of the book ‘Emotional Research’.