Criticism, advice, and praise reminds them that they're constantly being evaluated. They would rather be left alone than know their parents are thinking about their behavior and giving them a mental grade. The child begins to beam. You didn't interrupt my conversation with Mrs. Edmunds even once. The child's face sinks.
Praise is sometimes just a reminder that the child has a problem.
They understandably get a higher frequency of criticism and ultimately get fed up. Moreover, some parents are excessively evaluative no matter what their child's behavior. They seem to think that the main duty of parenting is evaluation. Almost everything the child does goes through a perceptual filter and comes out with a grade attached. At one end of the spectrum, we find overt anger, direct harsh criticism, and an overly strict authoritarian style that meets a parent's need for control more than the child's needs.