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if you’re oriented toward learning, as they are, you need accurate information about your current abilities in order to learn effectively.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
Jessica Lahey • 5 highlights
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In addition, research has shown that it isn’t good for children to be the top priority in a household. We have a nation filled with children who feel entitled, can’t really manage for themselves, and can’t endure uncomfortable emotions because everything is taken care of for them.
Rokelle Lerner • The Object of My Affection Is in My Reflection: Coping with Narcissists
Without emotional understanding from a caring adult, a child can feel distress or even a sense of shame.
Daniel J. Siegel , Mary Hartzell • Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive: 10th Anniversary Edition
Children, and adults as well, perform best when there is consistency and dependability. The brain craves them both.
James R. Doty • Into the Magic Shop
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Susan David • Emotional Agility
Our schools allow kids less exercise. They allow kids less play. They create more anxiety, because of the frenzy of tests. They don’t create conditions where kids can find their intrinsic motivations. And for many kids, we don’t give them opportunities to develop mastery—the sense they are good at something.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Having a Parent Who Cannot Regulate Their Emotions
Nicole LePera • How To Do The Work: Recognise Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
In uncertain times, especially when the stakes are high, all of us look for pockets of certainty. If that certainty is attached to a degree from Harvard or a profession like medicine, then many of us would be likely to overlook the bags under our kids’ eyes, knowing that we have helped them to secure a comfortable future. The problem is that this t
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