According to Carol Dweck, author of the groundbreaking book, Mindset, if kids aren’t challenged, they’ll never learn how to do hard work. The result? When the stakes get really high, they won’t know how to cope.
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Video transcript: "It is critical that kids do things that are hard. We want them to always feel successful at every moment. That’s not good for them. A parent came up to me recently and said her son had just graduated from high school. Her son was part of a group in high school called the geniuses. They all went to elite schools and they were all now on academic probation. That means they were flunking out. They never learned how to work hard. When they got to this new environment that required hard work where they weren’t better than everyone else, they fell apart. You must teach your child to work hard. If the school work isn’t hard enough, find another way to get your child working hard."
