How Children Succeed
Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
Recommended by Chelsea Frank, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #4 in Education, Ranked #25 in Teacher — see more rankings.
The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: Success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs.
But in "How Children Succeed," Paul Tough argues for a very different understanding of what makes a successful child. Drawing on groundbreaking research in neuroscience, economics, and psychology, Tough shows that the qualities that matter most have less to do with IQ and more to do with character: skills like grit, curiosity, conscientiousness, and... more
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Chelsea Frank I was reading a book, “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character” by Paul Tough on a recommendation by my sister, a Middle School teacher. At that time I considered myself a great mother with natural intuition and did not go to the book as a means of “self-help” but of leisurely pleasure. However, I was perplexed when I discovered that even the most intelligent, diligent, and natural parents fail their children on multiple levels. Intuition was not enough. The day I finished the book I went to my son’s baseball game ready to apply my knowledge but found that... (Source)
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How Children Succeed is ranked in the following categories:
- #28 in Child Psychology
- #92 in Educational Psychology
- #96 in Fatherhood
- #32 in Parenting
- #53 in Pediatrics
- #27 in Teaching
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