"I have been half in love with easeful Death, / Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme"

[larryhammer]

“Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control,” she explains. “They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child’s control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure.”

On how to praise children, per current research. (via)

"In a Dark Time"

For when you have a cuteness emergency. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from "Ode to a Nightingale," John Keats.