A quote from The Parent's Tao Te Ching
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A quote from The Parent's Tao Te Ching
If parents back off the pressure and anxiety over grades and achievement and focus on the bigger picture—a love of learning and independent inquiry—grades will improve and test scores will go up.
Jessica Lahey • The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
The whole idea of “what are you going to be when you grow up?” Is such a cursed question
Instead, ask kids what they want to do. Teach them that they don't have to pick any one thing, but instead be resilient enough to keep charting a path that makes sense.
The paradox of encouraging children to develop strong values is that parents effectively limit their own influence. Parents can nurture the impulse to be original, but at some point, people need to find their own role models for originality in their chosen fields.