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Tag Archives: Martin Seligman
Teaching Kids Optimism
My daughter Annie started first grade raring to go. After all those years of watching her big brothers attend full-day school, her time had finally come. She was a real school kid. There was just one problem. In Annie’s mind, … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Social/Emotional Skills
Tagged child having trouble learning to read, cynical children, emotional intelligence, explanatory style and optimism research, grumpy child, kids who are cynical, late readers, Martin Seligman, my kid is so negative, negative child, optimism in children, pessimism in children, teaching optimism with disputing
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Teaching Kids Persistence
All three of our kids play soccer on local teams. Early on Todd and I chose soccer as a sport to start with in our family mostly because it requires you to run hard. With three active kids living in … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Social/Emotional Skills
Tagged failure, helping kids with failure, kids and learned helplessness, kids and mastery, kids taking on challenges, kids tolerate failure, Martin Seligman, my kid can't hang in there, my kid never sticks with things, optimistic not pessimistic kids, persistence, soccer and persistence, teaching kids optimism, what kids get from soccer
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Imaginary Enemies: The Importance of Losing All Track of Time
I looked out into the backyard a while back and saw Stephen, my 10 year-old, flying across the grass on a yellow Hippity Hop, scowling fiercely. He wore his bike helmet and a knight’s breast plate made of plastic. He … Continue reading
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