Date: 2015-09-13 03:05 am (UTC)
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'To raise smart kids praise their effort, not their intelligence'

That has to be the best bit of child-raising advice I've ever seen.

Date: 2015-09-13 08:14 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] birguslatro
I don't remember any praise for either effort or apparent intelligence. Parents and teachers were just the ones who told you what to do and what not to do, the latter being enforced by the strap (at home and primary school) and the cane at high school. In schools, it all changed just after I left in the late 60s. I've been bemused ever since by kids seeming to like going to school.

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