Raising Brilliant Children
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emem
Mar 29, 2017, 3:09:04 PM3/29/17
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Very interesting article, which I believe is worth sharing:
How to raise brilliant children, according to science
"Why are traffic lights red, yellow and green?"
When a child
asks you a question like this, you have a few options. You can shut her
down with a "Just because." You can explain: "Red is for stop and green
is for go." Or, you can turn the question back to her and help her
figure out the answer with plenty of encouragement.
No parent,
teacher or caregiver has the time or patience to respond perfectly to
all of the many, many, many opportunities like these that come along.
But a new book, Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children, is designed to get us thinking about the magnitude of these moments.
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, the book's co-author, compares the challenge to climate change.
"What
we do with little kids today will matter in 20 years," she says. "If
you don't get it right, you will have an unlivable environment. That's
the crisis I see."
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Best Regards,
Emem Akpan
mpls, mn
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