Do Rewards for Performance Improve or Reduce Your Child’s Motivation?
The way to help the development of your child’s true self is to strengthen your child’s intrinsic motivation. This is the inner drive your child has to do things, as opposed to extrinsic motivation, in which incentives are used to spur action. You want your child to do things out of love, not because they […]
How to Help Your Child Choose the Work They Are Meant to Do
We live in a world in which we are bombarded by notifications and interruptions. It used to be that when something was important, it was a “priority.” But this singular result was deemed insufficient, so the English language was literally changed to accommodate our result-obsessed culture, inventing the plural “priorities.” As everyone was so busy […]
The Parent Who Loved Her Child but Didn’t Know How to Express Her Love
Isabel was a naturally gifted writer. From childhood, she filled notebooks with stories and poems, dreaming of becoming a novelist. She excelled in every writing class, won short-story competitions, and dreamed of applying to colleges with strong English or literature programs. Her mother, Rebecca, had a different vision. Raised in hardship, she had spent her […]