For parents who know the report card isn't the whole picture. One life skill per week — broken into three practical posts you can use at home tonight.
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What I Told My Son When a Machine Wrote Better Than He Did
My son turned his laptop around so I could see the screen.
“I put my English assignment into one of those AI things. Just to see.”
Two versions sat side by side. His, which had taken him most of Sunday afternoon and a lot of sighing. And...
Stop Praising the Score. Praise This Instead.
What to say instead of “you’re so smart”: the exact words for wins, failures and stuck moments, so your child learns to want the hard problem.
Three days after I wrote about the compliment that makes kids afraid, I said it to my daughter.
The Compliment That Made My Son Afraid
My son put down the hard problem and picked up the easy one.
I watched him do it. He’d been offered two options for an assignment: a standard task he could finish in twenty minutes for a safe, good mark, and a harder, stranger one his teac...
The Three Seconds After "I Did It"
You don’t get honest kids by demanding honesty. You get them from the three seconds after the truth is told. Here’s how to make it safe.
“Tempers got a little frayed in there,” I said.
My Daughter Said “It Broke.” That Sentence Has Nobody in It.
The glass hit the tiles and the whole kitchen went quiet.
My daughter stood over it with her hands half-raised, as if the pieces might still be put back. I watched her face do the thing it does: the flinch, the scramble, the search for a w...
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Founder of Spielgaben — 12 years helping parents raise deep thinkers through Fröbel's method. I run two newsletters: Spielgaben Homeschool (Fröbel decoded for modern parents) and Prepare Kids (life skills schools don't teach).
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