grit

Grit: helping kids bounce back from failure and (maybe) trauma

Many folks who tuned into Jennifer Guerra’s arresting audio documentary on foster care, "Finding Home," wondered how some of the young adults featured,…

Research

It's important to believe hard work matters more than intelligence, because it could make it true

Michigan State University has a new study out about "mindset messages," or how what we believe can change how well we can do.These studies, as my…

Families & Community

Want to get in on the hot new trend for middle-class parents? Just act like a poor parent

Dustin Dwyer

Like many other college-educated, NPR-listening, middle-class white parents in America, I've read the latest cover story in The Atlantic, "The…