Madeline Levine Quotes

#1. The best way we can help our children welcome challenges is to encourage them to work just outside their comfort zone, stand by to lend a hand when needed, and model enthusiasm for challenging tasks.

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#2. Until they enter elementary school most youngsters are motivated by the challenge itself, not by stars or grades or rewards. This is called mastery motivation and is the form of learning most likely to lead to both engagement and persistence, and ultimately to expertise.

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#3. I also know two steps forward and one step back is the rule, not the exception, as people work on change.

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#4. The relatively new field of "adolescent medicine" focuses not only on the traditional medical model of diagnosis and treatment, but, perhaps more than any other subspecialty of medicine, on education and prevention.

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#5. And it is unstructured play that provides the greatest opportunities for kids to be curious, creative, spontaneous, and collaborative.

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#6. Remember, our very first job is to appropriately monitor our teen's safety. After all, if we're not successful at that, then any discussion of cognitive skills is irrelevant.

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#7. Empathy is the accurate understanding of another person'ts internal experience. It has nothing to do with agreeing or disagreeing with that experience. Unlike sympathy, it makes no assumptions about how the other person is feeling.

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#8. Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.

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#9. Many leading educators and psychologists believe that it is the ability to ask good questions that characterizes both intelligence and creativity.

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#10. There is no parent more vulnerable to the excesses of overparenting than an unhappy parent. One of the most important things we do for our children is to present them with a version of adult life that is appealing and worth striving for.

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#11. We need to always deal with the child in front of us, not the child of our fantasies.

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