Great article here1 about kids who are constantly told they are smart going on to underperfom. I think the issue is probably that all the kids in this study were told they were clever, when really they are not. I have noticed that other parents have an artificially high estimation of their kids cleverness. This is particularly annoying for parents of genuinely clever kids like what I am.
number two son finally started clapping this week, and using cutlery by himself. He seems to want to feed himself now, he doesn't want to be fed. The not-clapping has become a game I think, he knows it is a marker everyone is looking for and he just won't do it.
Paul Clarke's blog - I live in Hythe near Folkestone. Wed + father to two, I am a full stack web engineer, + I do js / nodejs, some ruby, python, php ect ect. I like pubbing, parkrun, eating, home-automation + other diy jiggery-pokery, history, family tree stuff, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, + TIME TRAVEL.