William Stixrud
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322 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2019
last heard Jul 2021
William Stixrud’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And she said, Bill, we think it's a matter of treating kids respectfully.
And th that really hit that as as Ned said, we we think that kids wanna do well, that they got a brain in their head, they wanna be successful.
And that we don't do them a favor.
by working harder than they do.
Uh we uh we don't certainly do me the favors by fighting about the same thing over and over again.
Interesting.
I was at a I was at a meeting at a Catholic school recently on an eighth grade student who I had tested
who had a language disorder and and learning disabilities was really struggling in eighth grade.
And one of the learning specialists there said it takes two learning specialists, the tutor and and the mom all on the kid all the time in order to get him to do any work.
You know and predictably I said stop immediately because this won't change until the energy changes.
And I think that
part of the reason I started to think like this was I saw so many kids who went went off to college without any experience at all running their own life, making their own decisions.
And I also found early in my career that that even little kids
If you you say, let's think this through, let's think through the pros and cons.
Even six and seven-year-olds can make good decisions for themselves.
And part of part of our point in the book is we want kids to make good decisions.
As Ned said, kind of informed decisions, you know, where we we help them think through pros and cons, or we get other people to consult with us about what the right thing to do is.
But we want kids, including kids who are wired differently as much as possible.
To be making decisions for themselves, especially by the time they're teenagers, because that's how you become independent.
That's how you become a good decision maker, is your practice.
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