How Not to Talk to Your Kid Summary

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"How not to talk to your kids: the inverse power of praise" Summary and Response Assignment Summary (They Say): In the article "How not to talk to your kids: the inverse power of praise", Po Bronson wrote that the power of praise can make the child less intelligence and some other will think that it will help the child to preform better at school. There a child name Thomas (his middle name) who were told by his parent that he was very smart. He was one of the top one percent of the top one percent student in school. His father knew that his son will give up once he try thing that he wouldn't be successful at it. When it come to something when he don't like, he will try to avoid it. His parent will then force him to learn it afterward because they know he lack confidence about his ability and doesn't want other kids to make fun of him. A psychologist Carol Dweck and her her team at Columbia studied the effect of praise on students in New York schools. Dweck sent four female research assistants into New York fifth-grade classrooms and give each students a IQ test on puzzles. There will be two different group of students to preform the research. One were to praise for their intelligence and the other were to praise for their effort. When the result was done, majority who were praised from their effort chose the harder set of puzzles instead of those who were praised from their intelligence decided to pick the same easy puzzles again. Well basically the "smart" kids chose to look smart and decide not to make any mistakes to void embarrassment. This is why they lack confidence because kid already assumed that their already smart and doesn't need to learn new thing. On the other hand Jill Abraham is a mother who has never heard of the research that Dweck made. She like to praise her child works. She doesn't care what expert or other researcher say because

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