Someone posted a link to an article a few months back about what kids don't learn when they aren't challenged - things like persistence, study habits ,etc. (It think it was a 2 page .pdf)

My search of the forum didn't turn it up.

Can anyone provide the link again?

Thanks!

http://www.wku.edu/academy/?p=430

Thanks, inky!

I was able to find the .pdf too, if anyone is interested:
http://www.portage.k12.in.us/16072010221...doesntlearn.pdf

Here's the original post:

Oops -- I see that someone already beat me to posting the PDF....

Have a great day!

Inky,

Where do you find all this stuff? Thanks once more......

You're welcome and thanks to Mama22Gs for the original post plus Dandy for posting it again a few weeks ago! It's a great article.

Ok.... So now that i've read the article, what do I do? It didn't tell me anything I didn't already know, but it didn't tell me how to fix it.

I'm beginning to feel like in order to "challenge" my son, I need to drop a Trig book in front of him and walk away. Somehow I don't think that would work either.

Actually, maybe you should! That's how my son learned almost all of his math.

This has been my approach. I read about cool stuff online in places like this one and I get interesting looking things and literally put them in the house. One kid devours them and has self-taught a great deal of math. I just feed the bear and get out of the way.

I just ordered some stuff by Martin Gardner but I don't have it yet. It looks intriguing from comments by others.