American Children Are Drowning in Self-Esteem
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American Children Are Drowning in Self-Esteem
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#2Of course, the idea of children with low self esteem has been rising in correlation of increased usage of social media. I would add that the rates of anxiety are also related the high usage rate of social media users.
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#3There is another, more colloquial way, to describe artificially inflated self-esteem and overconfidence: being an asshole. Maybe that plain language translation will motivate parents to actually raise their children and teach them things so they don't all turn into stupid assholes like most everyone in America.
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#4If self-esteem is so high, why is suicide so common?
Giving someone self-esteem doesn't mean letting them whine all the time. Your swimming instructors saying “C’mon dude, stop complaining, let’s get on with it!” IS giving the kid self-esteem!
Teaching many ways to add is important because not all kids are going to be able to learn the same way at that age. Different methods are going to "click" for different students. And those extra ways of adding aren't useless. In fact I spent a fair bit of time in college math and computer courses learning new ways to count, let alone add.
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#5If self-esteem is so high, why is suicide so common? Giving someone self-esteem doesn't mean letting them whine all the time. Your swimming instructors saying “C’mon dude, stop complaining, let’s get on with it!” IS giving the kid self-esteem! Teaching many ways to add is important because not all kids are going to be able to learn the same way at that age. Different methods are going to "click" for different student…
"So common" compared to what?
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#6If self-esteem is so high, why is suicide so common? Giving someone self-esteem doesn't mean letting them whine all the time. Your swimming instructors saying “C’mon dude, stop complaining, let’s get on with it!” IS giving the kid self-esteem! Teaching many ways to add is important because not all kids are going to be able to learn the same way at that age. Different methods are going to "click" for different student…
"So common" compared to what?
Other causes of death.
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#7It is ironic the author uses a swimming metaphor:
"If their instructors had focused on making them feel good about swimming, instead of on making them swim, they could have drowned."
Swimming is almost natural. Most mammals can swim with out training (even my cat knew how to swim). Fear on the other hand is what leads to drowning. You don't need formal training in swimming to stay a float. You need to not be afraid of the water.
On personal level for the downvoters as to why this is such a crappy metaphor is I know several adult family members that do not know how to swim and one of them my wife and just trained recently.... it required lots and lots of confidence boosting and reassuring.
So the instructor actually does need to make them "feel good" aka comfortable with the water.
The author could have picked so many other metaphors where state of mind plays less of a role.
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#8If self-esteem is so high, why is suicide so common? Giving someone self-esteem doesn't mean letting them whine all the time. Your swimming instructors saying “C’mon dude, stop complaining, let’s get on with it!” IS giving the kid self-esteem! Teaching many ways to add is important because not all kids are going to be able to learn the same way at that age. Different methods are going to "click" for different student…
The argument I've heard is that children are not learning how to deal with failure or criticism early enough to develop a basic toolkit for it.
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#9It is ironic the author uses a swimming metaphor: "If their instructors had focused on making them feel good about swimming, instead of on making them swim, they could have drowned." Swimming is almost natural. Most mammals can swim with out training (even my cat knew how to swim). Fear on the other hand is what leads to drowning. You don't need formal training in swimming to stay a float. You need to not be afraid o…
That's nonsense. As a kid I was not afraid of water. I could dive 10 meters down without fear. But I still couldn't swim without instruction.
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#10We actually want more self-efficacy: http://seliger.com/2008/05/01/self-efficacy%E2%80%94oops-the... rather than self-esteem. Which is a topic that's been bandied about in the media for a while yet hasn't really taken hold.