Logical Consequences: Don't Default to Taking Away Valuables

Michelle Icard of Michelle in the Middle writes: "Don’t default to taking away the cell phone, favorite article of clothing, or xBox every time. You’ll just end up with a child who loses trust in your ability to be rational and, as a result, will work very hard to sneak around you."

Verbals - a short study guide

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Verbals

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Three Huge Mistakes We Make Leading Kids…and How to Correct Them

'There will be times our young people do need our help, or affirmation. But—healthy teens are going to want to spread their wings. They’ll need to try things on their own. And we, the adults, must let them. Here are some simple ideas you can employ as you navigate these waters:"

The Learning Virtues - NYTimes

Jin Li's research sheds light on the culture of East and West students: "Westerners tend to define learning cognitively while Asians tend to define it morally. Westerners tend to see learning as something people do in order to understand and master the external world. Asians tend to see learning as an arduous process they undertake in order to cultivate virtues inside the self."

NYT columnist David Brooks comments, "I’d just note that cultures that do fuse the academic and the moral, like Confucianism or Jewish Torah study, produce these awesome motivation explosions. It might be possible to champion other moral/academic codes to boost motivation in places where it is absent."