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Good tennis players are those who beat other tennis players, and a good shot during play is one the ...

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The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Coddled Kids

How well you do things should be incidental, not integral, to the way you regard yourself.

The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Coddled Kids

Historians have shown that "parents in the Middle Ages worried about their kids no less than we worr...

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The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Coddled Kids

Many of our elected officials have virtually handed the keys to our schools over to corporate intere...

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The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"

Like any other tool for facilitating the completion of a questionable task, rewards offer a "how" an...

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Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars

But as I mastered the material, homework ceased to be necessary. A no homework policy is a challenge...

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The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing

How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they reg...

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Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our cho...

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Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

My advice is to make a point of apologizing to your child about something at least twice a month. Wh...

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Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers...

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People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves a...

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Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars

Students get the message bout what adults want. When 4th graders in a variety of classroomswere aske...

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Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars

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Alfie Kohn

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Born: 1957-10-15

Died: N/A

Alfie Kohn (born October 15, 1957) is an American lecturer and author in the fields of education, psychology and parenting. He is an outspoken critic of American public education, particularly the trend toward pervasive standardized testing, and has written several books attacking "common sense" notions about competition, rewards, and parenting.More