Do you spend your day thinking about all the opportunities that you will give your kids? Opportunities that you never had. You want them to learn things you never learned because maybe if you had learned them, you’d be a better person in someway?
Turns out your kid just needs love. A positive experience. A good example. They need to see you be a kind person. A generous neighbor. A supportive friend. They need to watch you love them, and in turn they will learn to love, be kind, generous and supportive. Isn’t that what we want for our kids?
Good luck with all that. Turns out the bunch of brilliant professors, who came to this finding, can’t even follow their own advice. The fear of failure runs deeper than intelligence.
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