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Kids Are Keeping Up with the Joneses Too (opens the original)
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This Sunday at church, we read the parable about the merchant who finds a pearl worth so much he sells everything he owns just to have it. I continued thinking about this because I realized that some people call this man a fool, some call him wise, but really the merchant knew the difference between the price of a thing and the value of a thing.This reminded me of an Oscar Wilde quote about a cynic being someone who “knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Between this quote and
Believing In Yourself: Does It Actually Help Kids Learn? (opens the original)
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Here’s a pep talk I’ve probably given a hundred times, to my kids, myself, and my students: “You’ve got this. I know you can do it.” It’s the kind of thing we say instinctively, right alongside teachers, coaches, and anyone who has ever handed a kid (of any age) a worksheet. The logic feels good: believe in yourself a little more than the evidence strictly supports, try harder, get better. Confidence as fuel. Add in a power pose and we’re even better.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"
Well-Supported Parents Raise Kinder Kids (opens the original)
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Any parent of more than one kid knows the confusion of watching two kids from the exact same house (same rules, same snacks, same everything) turn out completely different when it comes to sharing, or noticing when someone else is having a hard day. It’s tempting to chalk it up to personality, birth order, or luck of the draw.But sharing, noticing, comforting (the stuff developmental and clinical psychologists lump together as “prosocial behavior”) isn’t just a quirk of who a kid happens to be.
Whose Version of Events Matters? (opens the original)
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There’s a phrase I hear a lot from parents, from teachers, even from well-meaning therapists: “That’s just how they see it.”Usually it’s said to minimize a kid’s reaction. A younger child or teen feels dismissed by a parent. A child believes their teacher doesn’t like them. An adolescent is convinced their friends left them out on purpose.And sure, sometimes kids misread a situation. But here’s what the science says: it almost doesn’t matter.How children and adolescents perceive the relationship
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