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When Academic Success Comes with Emotional Cost

My ten year old is brilliant at math but cries every time we do homework and I do not know if I should push through or back off.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Cognitive achievement is being pursued in a way that creates stress responses, potentially undermining long-term learning capacity.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Learning theories — behaviorism through constructivism?”

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