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Will Teaching About Growth Mindsets and Grit Work?

Vikram Bath September 14, 2017

Against the recommendations of positive psychology

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How Do You Get Good at Things?

Vikram Bath September 4, 2017

Practice makes perfect. What makes practice?

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People are their Histories

Vikram Bath August 10, 2017

If someone is good at something, it is the result of practice

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Should Random Non-political Thing be Politicized?

Vikram Bath July 17, 2017

The litmus test to sell a baby carrier

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Sonny, May I?

Kristin Devine July 3, 2017

A family is not a democracy.

Fatherhood & Conservatism

Guest Authors May 7, 2015

Guest writer Roland Dobbs, a long-time liberal, notices his political views shifting rightward with recent the arrival...

John Puccio on Confessions of a Baseball MomThe little known 11th Circle of Hell is watching 9 year olds try to play a baseball game on a Wednes…
Philip H in reply to Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025Which reinforces the notion that for most Americans, politics is not some in-depth chart and graph d…
InMD in reply to Marchmaine on Confessions of a Baseball MomIf you get to an A rating is it legal to punch your opponent in the jaw with the pommel, like a true…
North on Confessions of a Baseball MomCongrats Em, I'm of the opinion that artistic talent is considerably more useful than skill at sport…
Marchmaine in reply to Michael Cain on Confessions of a Baseball MomFencing was interesting... my boys both earned their E rating by winning tournaments in Charlottesvi…
Marchmaine in reply to Em Carpenter on Confessions of a Baseball MomYeah, I had more fun 'practicing' baseball with my friends - batting cage, pepper, 500, running base…
LeeEsq in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025Israel is hated by a lot more than it's neighbors.
CJColucci in reply to Jaybird on Joe Biden the Man Interrupts Joe Biden the NarrativeThis isn't binary, and it isn't really a matter of "trusting" Tapper. As I said, he will probably be…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025Being hated by your neighbors is also a normal country thing. The EU (and the various United States)…
Jaybird in reply to CJColucci on Joe Biden the Man Interrupts Joe Biden the NarrativeThe problem with "there's not a whole lot of reason to trust Tapper on this" is that, while true, it…