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Jessica Lahey on Parenting, Desirable Difficulties, The Gift of Failure, Self-Efficacy, and The Addiction Inoculation (#553)
tim.blog“You can’t teach cause and effect if you save [your children] from the effect”
Jessica Lahey • Jessica Lahey on Parenting, Desirable Difficulties, The Gift of Failure, Self-Efficacy, and The Addiction Inoculation (#553)
“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.”
Lori Gottlieb • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
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
Out of love and desire to protect our children's self-esteem, we have bulldozed every uncomfortable bump and obstacle out of the way, clearing the manicured path we hoped would lead to success and happiness. Unfortunately, in doing so we have deprived our children of the most important lessons of childhood. The setbacks, mistakes, miscalculations, ... See more
Jessica Lahey • The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
In order to help children make the most of their education, parents must begin to relinquish control and focus on three goals: embracing opportunities to fail, finding ways to learn from that failure, and creating positive home-school relationships
Jessica Lahey • The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
