Do Our Kids Get Off Too Easy?

CAT Tracks Editor's Note:

Sorry, Alfie, but I ain't big on the "pump up the self-esteem" approach...

...saw too many students in my time with totally unfounded delusions of grandeur...

...the proverbial "legends in their own minds."

Children who were:

"Damned by false praise."

That being said...

...by all means, show your children unconditional love, in their successes and especially in their failures.

As a dearly departed colleague and friend used to tell his students after bluntly assessing their shortcomings in behavior or academics...