3: youth development
Children who develop self-efficacy learn to believe they can rely on their abilities when facing a challenge.
Tamara Phd Rosier • Your Brain's Not Broken
Encouragement teaches kids to rely on themselves
Vicki Hoefle • Duct Tape Parenting: A Less Is More Approach to Raising Respectful, Responsible, and Resilient Kids
Parents think they can hand children permanent confidence—like a gift—by praising their brains and talent. It doesn’t work, and in fact has the opposite effect. It makes children doubt themselves as soon as anything is hard or anything goes wrong. If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children t... See more
Carol Dweck • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
How to develop self esteem for kids: give them something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process. - Randy Pausch
Quotes Collection
Adolescents benefit from structured adversity, whether it’s algebra or chores. They build self-esteem and work ethic. It’s why the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has argued for the importance of children learning to do hard things, something that technology is making infinitely easier to avoid
This circle of creativity of sorts is a space in which children can take risks and try things out, fall down and stand up again, fail and succeed—because they feel secure and safe in the proximity of a person who loves them unconditionally.
Tal Ben-Shahar • Short Cuts to Happiness: Life-Changing Lessons from My Barber
Reginald Dwayne Betts's Trajectory
- Reginald Dwayne Betts took a paralegal course and a writing correspondence course while in prison.
- Despite costing staff time, the prison allowed him to do this before Pell Grants and college programs were available.
- Years after release, initial metrics would have shown unemployment and low wages, making it seem li
People I (Mostly) Admire • Reading Dostoevsky Behind Bars
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Encouragement focuses on effort and improvement,