Don’t tell your kids that they are talented. More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort—not on intelligence or ability—is key to success in school and in life.
I just read a really good article about the science of raising smart kids.
Since me and my wife we plan to have a baby in the near future I found the article really interesting. Too bad that here in Romania where we live the art of teaching small children is highly oriented to getting higher grades than focusing on teaching value. All what we have left is to teach our children ourselves to concentrate on the hard work and learn for themselves and not for the grades, because grades will not make them successful in life after the school…
You can find the article here:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-secret-to-raising-smart-kids&print=true
More interesting things can be found also here:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1126743,00.html
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