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Kids of Helicopter Parents Are Sputtering Out
Slate: Academically overbearing parents are doing great harm. So says Bill Deresiewicz in his groundbreaking 2014 manifesto Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life. “[For students] haunted
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How to Be a Better Parent
Scientific American: God help me, being a parent is hard. It’s not necessarily the basic Abraham Maslow’s “hierarchy of needs” stuff that gets me, although providing for one’s family is a daily pressure. No, what
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Poor children more generous than their rich counterparts, study finds
The Telegraph: Even as four-year-olds, poor people are more generous than their richer counterparts, an altruism experiment suggests. Psychologists also found that teaching pre-school children to help those in need can lead to them being healthier
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Are Poor Kids More Altruistic?
New York Magazine: Altruistic behavior toward strangers, a growing body of research has found, brings with it emotional and health benefits. This can help explain what has traditionally been seen as the “mysterious” aspect of
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Do You See What I See?
The Economist: HUMAN beings are not born with the knowledge that others possess minds with different contents. Children develop such a “theory of mind” gradually, and even adults have it only imperfectly. But a study
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2015 Golden Goose Award: THE MARSHMALLOW TEST
The Golden Goose Award: Dr. Walter Mischel was once told he would be better off asking a candy company to fund research on his “marshmallow test,” rather than the National Institutes of Health (NIH). But
