That one about praise is great! I saw Alfie speak a while ago and that (along with another strange experience that happened around the same time) really got me thinking and reading about progressive education. All of his thoughts make sense to me. Seeing him made me get in touch with Katy, the director at Peninsula, who knows Alfie personally and we had a great talk about him and his ideas. The DVD of Unconditional Parenting is worth watching and pretty much verbatim what his lecture was about.
Along the line of praise, I went to see Carol Dweck speak a few weeks ago and her research is very noteable. Her new book, called Mindset is somethign I want to check out, but I think it would just repeat her lecture... It's worth looking for sure: at http://mindsetonline.com/
Nurture Shock by Po Bronson also has a chapter on praise that refers to Dweck's research. Here is an NPR Forum that you can listen to online. The 2nd half was less interesting to me, but I ended up reading the book anyway. http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R909041000
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