Hello, hello, dear listener and welcome into IEL speaking part three.

We're talking about encouraging people and more encouragement.

Rory is the authority.

Rory encourages people daily.

I have to encourage myself sometimes.

Ah, okay.

Yeah, we, like Rory encourages himself, other people, students.

You, dear listener, perhaps.

Mostly myself.

Do you think some people are better than others at persuading?

Oh, absolutely. Some people definitely have this great sense of gravitas and authority that makes them almost natural leaders who can make people fall in line.

I suppose it helps if you're backed up by some organization or institutional power, which is given to you

by something like a school, but it doesn't always seem to be necessary.

What kind of encouragement should parents give to their children? Well, ideally it should be necessary. What kind of encouragement should parents give to their children?

Well, ideally, it should be helpful and doesn't undermine a child's agency.

For example, they can make it clear why something is a great idea and support their

child to make the right choices in the appropriate direction.

But they shouldn't just tell or threaten them to do something

without question unless it's absolutely necessary. Otherwise, how are they going to find the

motivation to do things by themselves? When should parents encourage their children?

I don't really know, since I'm not a parent and I don't plan to be one. But in an ideal world,

I suppose it should be most of the time, at least when they're around their kids, assuming the children are behaving and things are normal.

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