Nurturing self-esteem, self-destruction

 
By George Will
Published: March 4, 2010

WASHINGTON — Memo to that Massachusetts school where children in physical education classes jump rope without using ropes: Get some ropes. And you — you are about 85 percent of all parents — who are constantly telling your children how intelligent they are: Do your children a favor and pipe down.

These are nuggets from "NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children” by Po Bronson and Ash...


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