Parenting course and coaching insights

I am a bit of coursera junkie, for the uninitiated you sign up for free and you get to take some online classes, kinda like adult education, there's a lot of crap but some really good stuff too. It costs money if you want to get a certificate and what not but if don't care about any of that the lectures and materials are free and sometimes really well done. 
so a course from some parenting expert at Yale who deals with defiant children pops up on my radar and I start reading through the materials (not thinking about coaching but because my 6 year son is a bit of a hellion, he comes by it honest) , this dude has a scientific method for getting the behaviors you want from kids, as i'm reading through this I realize that I already do a ton of this stuff while coaching, and for some dumb reason not nearly enough with my kid..but that's a separate matter. 

Method breaks down like this. (according to the Yale dude)
The most important aspect of getting behaviors you want is praise, but the praise has to be a little bit strategic, just throwing around "good job" is meaningless in the mind of kids, it doesn't release that sweet squirt of dopamine into their brains that makes them want to repeat those behaviors. 
Effective Praise is: 
Specific - say exactly what the kid did well
Effusive - use tone of voice, hand gestures and facial expressions to show how excited you are
personal - touch is powerful, a fist bump or a shoulder pad slap, nothing outside the realm of appropriate (syrup licking is out), but something to connect you and the kid

and you have to be careful about doing what the guy calls "cabooseing" that's when you tie up the praise with something negative like "hey jimmy...praise praise prasie...now where was that last week?" or ".....why can't we get that effort every time?" as soon as you throw a negative in behind the praise it loses it's effect 

so when I read through this I realize that when I'm really coaching well and I know I'm coaching well...these are the things I'm normally doing, I just never broke it down into steps, but it makes a lot of sense when I think about it

If we were all watching a guy coach, and his guard did a good skip pull and he ran up to the kid and said "jimmy, that's a hell of a job, you brought your foot around perfect and kept your shoulders square" then did a fist bump...we would probably all agree that's good coaching. 

Anyway it interested me, now I find myself thinking through it at practice while I watch my position group and trying to do a better job. I don't know if we are going to start playing better, but I feel like I am definitely coaching better. Just something I thought I'd pass along because I thought it was cool. Could be helpful for a young coach looking to find his style, or a HC with some guys on staff that could use a little help. 

TL;DR - stumbled on an online parenting class/maybe became a better coach