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Reply to "The trouble with telling children that they're "smart""
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[quote=Anonymous]It sort of depends. I think my son has a pretty good handle on the ways in which he is or is not smart. He's great at math, and I don't just tell him he "tries hard." He loves math and likes taking on new challenges and learning new things. It isn't just his effort level, he also has talent. However, he puts in minimal effort at reading, and so gets middling results. I tell him all of the time that he is going to have a reading problem unless he starts trying harder, and that you can't be good at only one thing and forget about everything else. [/quote]
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