"Neeum Zawan" <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote in message 
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> The summary if you don't want to read it all is that parents should avoid 
> praising intelligence, and should focus more on praising effort.

I see the value in that. My mother taught me, before I entered school, that 
I was smarter than all the other children. When I started school and 
complained that no one wanted to be friends with me, she taught me that all 
the other kids were jealous of how smart I was. When I started getting beat 
up, she told me that that was the price I had to pay for being so smart.

Fortunately, I *was* smart enough to realize how useless her advice was, and 
I learned to keep my smart [sic] comments to myself. :)

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