“The Secret to Raising Smart Kids”, an article by Carol Dweck, stresses the importance of having a growth mind-set. Initially, Dweck explores learned helplessness. This is when someone fails and gives up on the challenge rather than finding the solution. She implies that a lack of ability ruins motivation more than lack of effort. This reveals the two types of students, fixed mind-set and growth mind set.…
“Little kids are just dumb, the smart ones and the slow ones. They do dumb things. They say what they think. They haven’t learned enough yet to say what they don’t really think. That comes later, when kids begin to turn into people and find out that they are alone” (LeGuin 3).…
Dweck S. Carol. “The Secret to Raising Smart Kids.” Collections 12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015, pp 21-26. According to the article, doesn’t matter about how you were being raised, it is about the effort and ability you have for education.…
I wrote more on the issue "Why We Hate The Smart Kids" by Grant Penrod. I'm going to argue with the author on this one because I agree with everything he is trying to teach us in this article. For many students in high school or even college, it's the best time for them, most of them only come for the sports or the debate teams. In any high school, there are many different groups like; the jocks, the boring kids, the stoners, and the nerds. Out of all the groups I have said the one that gets the most heat are the nerds.…
When i was in 1st grade and i was 6 years old i had just came from golden corral with my brother,2 sisters,my mom, and her new boyfriend,we were headed home,but we needed some gas so we stop for some gas and some snacks, our mom new boyfriend bought for himself but then shared with us so after he got done pumping the gas we went home my mom said no more candy because it was past our bedtime but, when we got in the house my mom was pulling in the truck and we went inside to go to bed but my mom´s boyfriend gave us some candy anyways when we got in the house we ran up stairs and hurried up and ate the candy and put on our pajamas for bed once my mom got up stairs we were in the bed but then, that did not last long once my mom went back downstairs…
We had blanket we were playing with and we were doing different things with it. We were trying to be a human taco, trying to find people with the blanket on our head, playing king and queen, we would stand in a line and we would wrap ourselves up and trying to be a fat person. We did a lot of silly things with ourselves and the blanket. It was my turn to have the blanket over my head and try to find people (that went really well!!). So I was running around with the…
What is “happiness” and how is it obtained? The word “happiness” is defined as ‘a mental or emotional state of well-being defined by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy’. The decisions people make on a day-to-day basis are to reach the ultimate goal of being happy. While everyone strives to obtain happiness, not everyone succeeds. In today’s society, happiness seems to be directly correlated with factors such as wealth or status.…
Some people never break a bone, but other people have broken bones before. Some people might break one in their lifetime or break many. I know some friends that have broken bones, and they broke the bone by messing around. My brother has also broke his bone by trying to do the monkey bars at school, and he slipped and fell. I broke my arm when I was four years old.…
The time I fell off my friend’s trampoline, and broke my arm. I was 11 years old I my friend Pete and his sister were playing football outside. So after we played football we decided to go inside to relax, and get some water.…
The video World’s Smartest Kids was very interesting! The author, Amanda Ripley talks about how intrigued she was to learn about the world’s smartest children. During this presentation, she focuses on one of the girls that she followed during her year studying abroad in Finland. Kim, grew up in Oklahoma and was able to raise enough money to travel to Finland and study in a rural school for one year. At this school, Kim quickly realized that one of the reasons why Finland’s children were so smart was because the work that they did in school and for homework was much harder than the assignments back in the United States.…
It took a while for me to realize, I wasn 't wrong for thinking this way, it was just wrong to the kids that didn 't struggle like I did. It wasn 't long before I found that I was expanding my intelligence all…
A Great Dislike for Intellectuals “[I]ntellectuals constantly see their efforts trivialized in the rush to lavish compliments elsewhere,” (759). This is a statement from Grant Penrod’s article, Anti-Intellectualism: Why We Hate the Smart Kids, that creates a strong inquiry as to why the problem occurs. His article presents an in-depth exploration of the reasons. Penrod starts off the article by stating that an Arizona high school football team was praised for their championship, but that the academic teams, at that same school, were hardly praised at all. He presents another example, of these injustices, by mentioning the horrible online messages about intellectuals and how they are too prevalent in today’s society.…
Then I closed my eyes and I appeared in a bed the room was dark and I was wearing a ripped up dress with a phone in my hand and I decided to turn on the…
I learn a lot from my kids. They teach me something all the time and in turn I try to throw them some upbringing along the way . . . seems only fair.…
I tiptoed to my phone in my room. I unlocked it, dialed “911” and hid underneath my bed. I told the operator my address and there was an intruder. I heard him come up from the basement, and move back into my room. Then the unthinkable happened, I was dragged from under my bed.…