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Jul

2011

How to Land Your Kid in Therapy - Magazine - The Atlantic

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At the end of the season, the league finds a way to “honor each child” with a trophy. “They’re kind of euphemistic,” the coach said of the awards, “but they’re effective.” The Spirit Award went to “the troublemaker who always talks and doesn’t pay attention, so we spun it into his being very ‘spirited,’” he said.
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sometimes she feels like she’s walking on eggshells while trying to do her job. If, for instance, a couple of kids are doing something they’re not supposed to—name-calling, climbing on a table, throwing sand—her instinct would be to say “Hey, knock it off, you two!” But, she says, she’d be fired for saying that, because you have to go talk with the kids, find out what they were feeling, explain what else they could do with that feeling other than call somebody a “poopy face” or put sand in somebody’s hair, and then help them mutually come up with a solution.

“We try to be so correct in our language and our discipline that we forget the true message we’re trying to send—which is, don’t name-call and don’t throw the sand!” she said. “But by the time we’re done ‘talking it through,’ the kids don’t want to play anymore, a rote apology is made, and they’ll do it again five minutes later, because they kind of got a pass. ‘Knock it off’ works every time, because they already know why it’s wrong, and the message is concise and clear. But to keep my job, I have to go and explore their feelings.”
But today, Twenge says, “we treat our kids like adults when they’re children, and we infantilize them when they’re 18 years old.”

Feb

2008

"Yikes" - Richard Florida and The Creative Class Exchange

Florida quotes from a NYT review of Susan Jacoby's book, "The Age of American Unreason," which describes the spectacularly stupid Kellie Pickler, who claimed on television that she had never heard of Hungary, didn't know what country Budapest is the capital of, and believed that Europe was "a country." Her performance has earned her a wildly popular view rank on YouTube. But you have to wonder, as I did in my comment to Richard's entry, whether it wasn't a purposeful exercise on Pickler's part. If you can't win prizes for being smart, what better way to ensure your 15 minutes of YouTube fame than by being the absolute stupidest of the moment? I'm sure it's a growing trend and we'll see plenty more people competing in this ..."category."

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