“Educators and psychologists have a mantra these days: No matter how hectic the schedules of your family members may be, make time to have dinner together. Research shows that family dinners help kids feel they matter to the parent, and… — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share Image
“Send your kid to a summer camp focused on free play. One such place is Gever Tulley’s Tinkering School—a sleepover summer camp in Half… — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share Image
“Educators and psychologists have a mantra these days: No matter how hectic the schedules of your family members may be, make time to have… — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share Image
“cultivation of a willingness to defy, debunk, or just plain old disappoint one’s parents, that is the absolute precondition, now more than ever, for… — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share Image
“Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg has written a comprehensive and perhaps definitive text on building resilience in children—Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings, published by the American Academy of Pediatrics.17 In it he teaches that resilience is comprised of competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping, and control, which he terms the “7 C’s,” and which emanate from… — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share
“Jessica Lahey, teacher, writer for The Atlantic and New York Times, and author of The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to… — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share Image
“As Denise Pope outlined in “Doing School,” kids today have tremendous pressure to simply get the work done—to “do school”—rather than to learn. They learn to do tasks, to produce every element the teacher wants to see in a five-paragraph essay, or to memorize every term in bio and every formula in math. They think their next task is to… — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share
“Read Hanna Rosin’s 2014 article “The Overprotected Kid”7 about one such place in the United Kingdom called “The Land” and think about how to… — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share Image
“In 2000, a German researcher named Andreas Schleicher developed the Program for International Student Assessment test (PISA) to help nations determine whether their teenagers… — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share Image
“That I expect them to break the rules and to climb up to the highest branch and saw it off behind them. I tell… — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share Image
“Our definition of neglect has stretched to prevent parents from determining when their children are ready for even a modest amount of autonomy, and sacrifices developmentally appropriate skill building to fears of the unknown. While we might write off the Japanese as crazy, our American insistence on children being observed and accompanied at all times makes us look like the… — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share
“Educator Jennifer Fox, author of Your Child’s Strengths: A Guide for Parents and Teachers, would agree. In her book she explains that you can… — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share Image
“Dweck’s website, mindsetonline.com, teaches a step-by-step approach to developing “growth mindset.”15” — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share Image
