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My grandma has said many of the things her character says. But she was much nicer! I made her meaner for dramatic purposes.

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Paul Tough

If kids've been overprotected from failure in childhood, they get out into the world and they really get thrown off.

Childhood, Failure, Kids, Overprotected, World
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If we don't give kids the opportunity to fail when they're growing up, and to fail productively, to fail creatively, that they're going to get out there into the world and they're going to hit some kind of setback, like everybody does, and they're going to get completely derailed.

Creatively, Growing Up, Kids, Kind, Opportunity, Productively

What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years. What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit, and self-confidence. Economists refer to these as noncognitive skills, psychologists call them personality traits, and the rest of us sometimes think of them as character.

Character, Children, Help, Refer, Self Confidence, Years

What if the Secret to Success is Failure?.

Failure, Secret, Secret To Success, Success, What If

The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all kinds, both emotional and cognitive. As a result, children who grow up in stressful environments generally find it harder to concentrate, harder to sit still, harder to rebound from disappointments, and harder to follow directions. And that has a direct effect on their performance in school.

Children, Cortex, Disappointment, Growing Up, Result, Stressful

Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they’re more likely to pick themselves up and try again.

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