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[sistrmoon]

I think I read this article before I became a parent. Really interesting.

The Power and Peril of Praising Your Kids

For a few decades, it’s been noted that a large percentage of all gifted students (those who score in the top 10 percent on aptitude tests) severely underestimate their own abilities. Those afflicted with this lack of perceived

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[imzadi]

I'll have to read that.

Related reading...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112292248

[basilwhite]

If you tell a kid, "good job! You must be smart," they do less, because they avoid the risk of making mistakes, to maintain their reputation.

If you tell a kid, "good job! You must be a hard worker," they do more for the sake of maintaining their reputation.

[dragonbec]

I really liked that article. I have seen this in my own children. Sometimes Tracy will struggle with answering writing questions that have an open answer because she doesnt know what the "right" answer is and so wont write anything. I have to tell her to just do her best to write something and there is no right answer sometimes (or wrong answer). It's like she expects to just know what to write, not to have to work to think of it.

I liked the experiment where they taught the kids about how intelligence can be developed and then the kids worked harder and improved! Any kid at all can do better if they try hard!

[morgana_lafey]

Very interesing article.