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A growing body of research suggests that praising children for their talent and intelligence doesn't help them achieve success; it sets them up for disappointment. These children are likely to stumble at school when faced with challenges that don't immediately reinforce the accolades they hear at home.They're also more likely to avoid tasks at which they might fail than children who are praised instead for their hard work. Carol Dweck (2008) compared two groups of 5th graders who took an IQ test involving relatively easy puzzles. One group was praised as being intelligent and the other for making a good effort. In subsequent testing, the children who had been praised for being smart backed away from a difficult assignment when an easier one was offered. They took their failure at another very difficult test as a sign they weren't smart at all. In a final IQ test, which was exactly the same as the first one, the children who were tagged as intelligent did about 20 percent worse than they had the first time. The children praised for their effort improved their scores by 30 per- cent. By labeling a child smart or talented, parents are, in effect, "outsourcing" the child's self-esteem. The more children are praised, the more they look over their shoulder, wondering: "Am I going to get praise? Do people think this is good?" Need Assignment Help?