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#1 2013-02-09 08:37:08

eventexception
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Why can some kids handle pressure while others fall apart?

Stunning NYT article about the performance of Worriers and Warriors
in different situations. Even valid for adults.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/magaz … wanted=all

Could serve as a project idea ...

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#2 2013-02-09 09:58:56

soupoftomato
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Re: Why can some kids handle pressure while others fall apart?

Those state tests that kid hates so much don't actually mean anything for HIM, just the school's performance, so it's silly.

And what the heck mother, exempting him from them. Good luck to that kid when he HAS to take tests, I guess.

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#3 2013-02-09 11:28:10

Programmer_112
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Re: Why can some kids handle pressure while others fall apart?

Well, I would say the older kid doesn't care because the parents had little or no experience with kids when he was born, so they didn't expect much of him.  The second kid obviously has pressure on himself from some source to do wwell (cough*theschool*cough), soit cracks him.  This happens in my family a lot (the entire thing, almost exactly, but a 5th and 7th grader );luckily, I'm the older one, and my brothers figured out how to deal with it.  These types of test really help to show how much we need children to succeed.  Hopefully, we do.

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#4 2013-02-10 00:53:19

banana500
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Re: Why can some kids handle pressure while others fall apart?

It's very unpredictable, really.

Some kids are more confident than others, I guess, how they develop habits or emotions as such is beyond me, it's totally up to them.

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#5 2013-02-10 01:08:28

veggieman001
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Re: Why can some kids handle pressure while others fall apart?

Wow her children have the same names and age differences as my brother and myself.

As for the actual content: I don't know. I don't care much about state tests that much, because I don't think they really matter.

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