How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough

Author:Paul Tough [Tough, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Non-Fiction, Sociology, Adult, Azizex666, Psychology
ISBN: 9780547564654
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Amazon: 0547564651
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2012-09-04T04:00:00+00:00

The first day and a half was pretty bad. I was on a complete rampage, going over every game and being a huge bitch all the time: saying things like “THAT IS COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE!!!” to 11-year-olds for hanging pieces or not having a reason for a move. I said some amazing things to kids, including “You can count to two, right? Then you should have seen that!!” and “If you are not going to pay more attention, you should quit chess, because you are wasting everyone’s time.”

By the end of round three I was starting to feel like an abusive jerk and was about to give up and be fake nice instead. But then in round four everyone took more than an hour and started playing well. And I really believe that’s why we seem to win girls’ nationals sections pretty easily every year: most people won’t tell teenage girls (especially the together, articulate ones) that they are lazy and the quality of their work is unacceptable. And sometimes kids need to hear that, or they have no reason to step up.

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