For the past ten years, psychologist Carol Dweck and her team at Columbia (she’s now at Stanford) studied the effect of praise on students in a dozen New York schools. Her seminal work—a series of experiments on 400 fifth-graders—paints the picture most clearly. Dweck...
well it’s finally the end of phase 1 of PRISM. it’s been 6 weeks since i’ve had any white flour products, potatos, bread, sugar, desserts, or “comfort” snack foods like popcorn or chips. for the last six weeks i’ve limited my...
it’s been a while since i’ve given just a run down of the ‘going ons’ at the lara home. so, for those of you outside the 98930 zip code*, here’s what’s happening: (this is an excerpt of an email i sent to my sister) //...
[UPDATE: deb corrected me by telling me that Lisa’s maiden name was ‘Ecklund” and that her new married name was ‘Kindleberger’ – sorry Lisa. :-)]————————–[disclaimer: in case you...
