Ep.5/ The Right and Wrong Way to promote self-esteem in our children with Ashely Merryman, New York Times Best Seller
The Right And Wrong Way to Promote Self-Esteem in our child with Ashely Merryman.
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Is good Self Esteem bad for children? Really? Listen up and you can learn more about how researchers caution against promoting children's self-esteem.
Summer is over and school is back in session. It's a perfect time to listen to my next podcast. I have Ashley Merryman as a guest today and she is the co-author of two New York Time's best-selling books, Nurture Shock; New Thinking About Children and Top Dog; The Science of Winning and Losing. "Nurture Shock; New Thinking About children" and Top Dog; The Science of Winning and Losing." For 6 months, Nurture Shock, was on the New York Times bestseller list and an Amazon Top Nonfiction 100 book for over a year. Nurture Shock has been published in 16 different languages and is a worldwide phenomenon.
We all want to help our children succeed. Today we are going to speak with Ms. Merryman and she will share with us some of the shocking information that was uncovered with dynamic research in the book, Nurture Shock. Researchers caution against promoting children's self-esteem. In Nurture Shock it states, "Baumeister concluded, that having high self-esteem didn't improve grades or career achievement. It didn't even reduce alcohol usage. And it especially did not lower violence of any sort. (Highly aggressive, violent people happen to think very highly of themselves, debunking the theory that people are aggressive to make up for low self-esteem.)"
Ep.5/
Self-Esteem
The right and wrong way to promote it.